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Media Event As a Various Science
One need not make any extensive surveys of different media to provide evidence for this failure. It is enough to see how sports has managed to gain more coverage in various media over the last few decades vis-a-vis science.
One may argue that this is so because there are always … Read the rest
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Christopher Columbus Kraft, NASA’s legendary flight director, has died
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Chris Kraft, left, and Robert Gilruth monitor the launch of Apollo 5 in 1968. [credit:
NASA ]
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.—one of NASA’s founding engineers, its first flight director, and a key architect of the Apollo and space shuttle programs—has died at the age of 95.
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SpaceX has been assembling a Starship prototype in South Texas. This gallery highlights a recent static fire test. [credit:
Trevor Mahlmann for Ars ]
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Enlarge / If only controlling electron behavior was as easy as building atom illustrations out of children’s toys… (credit: Japatino / Getty Images)
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