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...sunrise at 5:52 a.m., a total of 250 scientists, journalists and guests had gathered, waiting and waiting for the last eclipse visible from the U.S. in the 20th century. At 6:30 a.m. the celestial show began. Like a devouring sky god, the moon's shadow appeared, gouging out a perfectly rounded bite from the upper edge of the sun. Moving at 10,000 km/h (6,000 m.p.h.) -- but as slowly as a distant airplane to the human eye -- the shadow crept down the face of the sun. Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed...
...space looking at areas of science that could lead to cures for disease can't be ignored. It's there, but you can't put a dollars-and-cents price tag on that. It's like trying to weigh the cost and benefits of going to the moon...
People are applying the same sense of patient pragmatism to the country's homegrown troubles. Once frustrated critics asked why, if America could land men on the moon, it could not cure its domestic ills. Now they ask the same question about the easy win in the gulf. In the weeks just after the war, Democrats longingly predicted a backlash at home from expectations raised and then dashed. What would happen, they mused, when Americans woke up the next morning to find the homeless still outside their doors, the addicts still shooting each other, their schools firing teachers for lack...
...first proposed to put a permanent house in orbit, it sounded like a logical next step for a nation gaining confidence in its new shuttle, flexing its space legs and preparing to go farther. After all, if we were going to send humans to Mars or back to the moon, the astronauts needed a place to assemble their giant spaceships; if we were going to monitor large-scale changes on earth, scientists needed a platform to watch from; if ultra-pure drugs and crystals produced in zero gravity were going to revolutionize industry, technicians needed a place to make...
There has always been a slightly strained air to NASA's pronouncements about the space shuttle, like the comparison of last month's Star Wars mission to a ballet -- this from an agency that has been to the moon and skimmed the rings of Saturn...