Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking its first toddling steps on its long march to the moon. Although he was 40, Glenn figured he still had a lot of flying ahead of him. When he returned to Earth, he found otherwise. Like any other astronaut, he periodically approached Bob Gilruth, head of the Mercury program, to inquire about his position in the flight rotation; unlike any other astronaut, he was routinely stonewalled. "Headquarters doesn't want you to go back up," Gilruth would say to him, "at least...
Whether or not this is true, there is no denying that Glenn's 1998 mission will be rich with echoes from his 1962 mission. Once again there will be the program-pre-empting coverage; once again Annie Glenn and her family will be seen watching anxiously as the rocket that carries the head of the household explodes off the ground and falls back to Earth; once again there should be the triumphal return...
...hungry mind is ageless too. And here is the old/new story of courage in a distant place, of daring and going. Never mind that the carpers call this mission useless. The public does not require a usefulness beyond its own admiring pleasure. As for the practicalities of the space program, it was never so useful as when it reminded the country of heroic capabilities...
...instance, Harvard Radcliffe Science Alliance, a four day program for incoming first-year women that prepares them for the sciences at Harvard, already has 35 students signed...
...While he's up there, perhaps Baturin can help solve Mir's acute financial crisis. He'll not be unaware of the need -- his own flight was postponed 10 days because the space agency couldn't pay its electricity bills. The entire Mir program, in fact, is in debt to the tune of $600 million. But for Baturin, whose earthbound job involved figuring out how to pay wages to the starving Russian military, that's a relatively minor cash-flow problem...