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...that John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International...
NASA's geezer-in-space program starring Senator John Glenn holds many benefits for American society [SPACE, Jan. 26]. The ultimate political junket, this program could entice Senators such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to leave terra firma, giving us respite from their earthly resistance to progress. C. "JACK" BEECHER West Swanzey...
...dosages affects neither a food's taste nor its nutritional value in any detectable way--irradiated poultry, vegetables and fruits are almost as rare as Iranian caviar in U.S. markets. Though NASA has long irradiated food for space flights, the only widely sold "nuked" consumer products on U.S. terra firma are baby-bottle nipples, cosmetics, bandages, tampons, contact-lens cleaning fluids, juice and milk cartons and wine corks...
About 360 million years ago, as any schoolchild who knows his prehistoric zoology can tell you, some adventurous fish managed to hoist themselves onto their stubby fins and crawl clumsily out of the swamps to forage for food. Once these primeval creatures were on terra firma, their offspring began to adapt to their new environment, natural selection (over tens of millions of years) favoring those that developed features well suited to life on land: paws, hooves, knees, joints, fingers and thumbs. Thus, as generations of schoolchildren have learned, did these marine creatures give rise to frogs, birds, dinosaurs...
...despite his adventurous nature, says Fazio, Hoffman's friends and colleagues expected him to keep a bit closer to terra firma...