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Surveyor I

DURING MY THIRTY-ONE YEARS at the Kennedy Space Center I spent six of them working at what was then called Unmanned Launch Operations, or ULO; first for a two-year stint, and later on a four. I did no real work on the first two American manned space programs, Mercury...

Inside Blockhouse 26

STEPHEN PINKER, a Harvard professor and author of several popular science books (The Blank Slate being perhaps the best known) last year wrote a short but potent article discussing the ongoing clashes between science and popular culture, religion, and the humanities....

Sir Arthur at Kennedy Space Center

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (who died Sir Arthur, after receiving a well-deserved knighthood) was a casual but long-term friend. He often had dinner at the Greenhouse when visiting the Kennedy Space Center. (He also attended the Apollo 11 prelaunch party at the Greenhouse, a...

Reaching for the Stars

EARLIER THIS YEAR the local paper, Florida TODAY—highly space-oriented, since its territory includes the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center—carried a front page story that brought back vivid memories. The article said that space...