Eating in space for John Glenn turned out to be an easy though not too tasty experience. Before the flight, some experts were worried that, in weightlessness food would be hard to swallow and as a result, collect in the throat. Glenn found that eating in space was relatively easy and once the food reached the mouth, there was no problem in swallowing. Other Mercury astronauts following John Glenn were forced to endure bite-sized cubes, freeze dried foods, and semi-liquids in aluminum toothpaste-type tubes. They found the food unappetizing, had trouble rehydrating the freeze-dried foods, and disliked squeezing the tubes. Futhermore, crumbs from the bite-sized cubes had to be captured to prevent them from fouling instruments.
Everything's relative. Speed, mass, space and time are all subjective. Nor are age, motion or the wanderings of the planets measures that humans can agree on anymore; they can be judged only by the whim of the observer. Light has weight. Space has curves. And coiled within a pound of matter, any matter, is the explosive power of 14 million tons of TNT. We know all this, we are set adrift in this way at the end of the 20th century, because of Albert Einstein.
The popular magazine TIME put together this attractive site of the biographies and accomplishments of the most important scientists and inventors of the 20th Century to accompany TIME's Man of the Century site - that man being Albert Einstein. Essays on the Wright Brothers (aviation), Watson and Crick (genetics), Tim Berners-Lee (the World Wide Web) and many others in between are designed for a mainstream audience, though should prove useful as background information for scholars. The articles were written by established scholars (Peter Gay wrote about Sigmund Freud for instance while Donald Johanson wrote about the Leakey family). The site also includes photographs, audio-clips, and slide presentations.
Most aeronautical histories treat the Bristol Aeroplane Company and its predecessor, the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company, as though they were vast, faceless industrial conglomerates.
But like the aeronautical companies set up by Handley Page, A.V. Roe, Sopwith, de Havilland, Vickers, Blackburn and Rolls, Bristol was the product of one man's vision. His determination to bring honour to his native city, led him to fight the Board of Trade for the right to name his craft "Bristol", rather than naming them after himself. He was the self made entrepreneur, tramway pioneer, stockbroker, industrialist and philanthropist, Sir George White Bt., LLD.,JP. (1854-1916)
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In 1988, the Space Foundation in cooperation with NASA, established the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Its purpose is threefold: to honor the innovators who have transformed technology originally developed for space use into commercial products; to increase public awareness of the benefits of space spinoff technology; and to encourage further innovation.
The mission of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, a non-profit institution, is to provide for the public an educational, scientific and cultural institution devoted to the history of aviation and space flight. This is accomplished through the aircraft and spacecraft collections and the chronology of achievements of the men and women who made significant contributions in aviation and aerospace, with particular emphasis on San Diego's long and rich aerospace history.
The material in this archive has been culled from USENET, BITNET, the ANE archive and personal correspondance (principally with Martin Stower of the University of Liverpool). To encourage a serious scientific debate I have tried to present a spectrum of opinions about Sitchin's work, from favorable (top) to skeptical (bottom). In the middle are some links to (conventional) scholarly resources to ancient Mesopotamia and astronomy. The opinions expressed are those of the authors, of course.
