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...brick campus of 6,400 pre-schoolers When they see bicycles shuttling students from class to class, they see training wheels on the back. When they hear of a student sucking a nipple, they think of the rubber cap to a bottle of formula. So they moon us, as Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 so accurately...
AFTER LOOKING AT THE IMAGES OF THE universe, I began to wonder: Are we really significant? John Kennedy definitely got the picture and could see the importance of going into space with the goal of man's landing on the moon. Apparently House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Bob Dole don't get the picture, as evidenced by their efforts to make cuts in the meager NASA budget in the Contract with America. A picture in the book The Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan, shows the earth as a tiny point of light that is barely visible among...
...city of Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei pointed his newly handmade telescope skyward, stared into the eyepiece and gasped in excitement. Through the lenses of the world's first astronomical telescope, four white spots were clearly visible floating near a brightly shining planet. Galileo had discovered Jupiter's four major moons, the first (except for Earth's own moon) ever seen around a planet...
...probe's transmitted data in its tape recorder, Galileo will begin its tour of the Jovian system. In a route that will take it into 11 far-ranging orbits during the next 23 months, it will swoop as close as 160 miles above three of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, flying by each of them several times. On these passes--hundreds of times closer than those achieved by Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1979--it will shoot pictures and, with remote sensing instruments, analyze the chemical composition of the moons. In the course of its many...
Forced into a longer journey, the spacecraft made good use of its time. It shot pictures, calibrated its instruments, conducted scientific observations of Venus and Earth during its flybys and, among other achievements, confirmed the existence of a huge impact crater on the backside of the moon. Passing twice through the asteroid belt, it snapped the first closeup images of the asteroid Gaspra and discovered the first asteroidal moon, a tiny clump (later named Dactyl) orbiting the asteroid Ida. Then in July 1994 it shot pictures of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plunging into Jupiter, capturing images...