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Space
Scott Carpenter's Wild Ride
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
Revisiting the flight of Aurora 7 after 50 years
Fifty years ago this month—on May 24, 1962—Scott Carpenter became the fourth American in space. Five hours later, he also became the only astronaut in history to find himself alone at sea after his Mercury spacecraft splashed down 250 miles off course in the Atlantic Ocean.
Yes We Can
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
A lot of parallels have been drawn recently between President-elect Barack Obama and President John F. Kennedy. Like Kennedy, Obama is a young man elected to the most important office in the world. Also like President and Mrs. Kennedy, the Obamas will be raising young children in the White House. No matter your political affiliation, you have to smile thinking about those two kids visiting their father in the Oval Office. It's a wonderful thing.
My Opinion - Stay the Course
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
Under mounting political pressure, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has ordered an internal reassessment of the agency's decision to retire the space shuttle fleet in 2010 to make way for
From the Empire State Building...
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
It's almost surreal to be back in Manhattan after spending time in the wide open spaces of New Mexico. Deb Martin, Wil Simon and I ventured to Alamogordo, N.M. on October 26 to attend the
Thank Goodness for Magnetism
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- Written by Dr. Tony Phillips
Only 93 million miles from Earth, a certain G-type star is beginning to act up.
Every 11 years or so, the solar cycle brings a period of high solar activity. Giant islands of magnetism—”sunspots”—break through the stellar surface in increasing numbers. Sometimes they erupt like a billion atomic bombs going off at once, producing intense flares of X-rays and UV radiation, and hurling massive clouds of plasma toward Earth.