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...chair with kites attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times, then parachute to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
...exploit space travel for a quick buck. Stamps bearing the Shenzhou image have become collectors' items, and the Jianlibao company promotes its sports drinks with pictures of an astronaut. Several companies even applied to put their corporate logos on the side of the spacecraft for its first manned launch. Beijing declined, perhaps feeling that Shenzhou is its own best...
Starting tonight, the Brattle will launch the Boston Fantastic Film Festival, where science fiction and fantasy will share the screen with horror flicks and so-called ‘cult’ films...
...Forum has paid special attention to colleges ever since its beginning in 1967, Suhrcke says, when the Unitarian Universalist’s Association decided to launch a response to the teach-ins that many universities were conducting at the time...
...first event last Thursday evening in the Kronauer Space of Adams House. Dozens of the impassioned gathered to deliver manifestos ranging from “Fuck Literacy” to “Manifesto Against the Price Attached to Food.” The event also served as a launch for a new experimental ’zine known as Present...