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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....

No Grandson on the Moon

MY SIGNATURE rests on the Moon. While it contributed nothing to the American space program, I get a lot of personal satisfaction from the above. It came about this way. Shortly before John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly lifted off on the Apollo 16 mission, many...

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...