Contemporary politics,local and international current affairs, science, music and extracts from the Queensland Newspaper "THE WORKER" documenting the proud history of the Labour Movement.
MAHATMA GANDHI ~ Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Dr. Robert Jastrow was brilliant,
with an intellect and drive that attracted some of the world’s top
scientists to advise NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Two of these towering figures were Jule Charney and Vern Suomi. What
good fortune to witness their discussions! They were pioneers in the
use of the space program to benefit people on Earth.
I was heavily invested in planetary studies, with an experiment under
construction for Pioneer Venus, and a proposal to be written for the
Galileo Jupiter mission. It would require three big pushes to alter our
course, to cause us to look back at the home planet. Here are the
first two, for fact checking (Chapters 11 & 12 of Sophie’s Planet).
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