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[my-genx-childhood]

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and th

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Meanderings Of Filosofa's Mind

Meanderings Of Filosofa’s Mind

Today I am feeling introspective, philosophical.  Perhaps it is because my workspace is temporarily at the kitchen table, directly in front of the kitchen window until my new chair and laptop desk arrive sometime next week.  As I glance outside the window, I see the birds, pecking at the feed my darling neighbor, Maha, has put down for them, and I see the children … one kicking a ball, another…

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NASA SPACE PROGRAM ( 12th April,1981) Kennedy Space Center, Fla.-- The Space Shuttle rises majestically above Launch Complex 39-S, Pad A on the first leg of its maiden journey to space. On board for the historic flight are the Astronauts John Young & Robert Crippen, scheduled to spend nearly 54 hours in space on this first shakedown test of America's new reusable Space Transportation System, " S.T.S.". The Sunday morning lift off came a few seconds after 7:00 a.m. and marked the dawn of a new era in space flight.