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The Space Race encapsulates both the best and the worst of aspects of U.S. history. On the one hand, there is humanity’s drive to learn and explore. All space programs have no choice but to celebrate the wonders of mathematics, physics, and engineering. (To put this into ’80s film terms: no matter how jock-ish an image an astronaut wants to put forth, it’s still nerds who get us into space.) Space exploration doesn’t just raise the possibility that humanity will find new homes across th...

WILDERS WHOLE WORLD: Thoughts on the Mars landing By Dwayne Wilder Special to the Herald Democrat NASA landed a Mars rover on the Red Planet in February; one named Perseverance, which will do more to explore and study our nearest celestial planet than any other in our history. It is the first step in putting humans on a different planet for the first time. The American Space Program has been trudging along for decades after an exciting 1960s and 1970s. Yes, we had the Space Shuttle and the Inte...

A spacecraft named for ‘Hidden Figures’ mathematician Katherine Johnson has arrived on the International Space Station A spacecraft named for the famed NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson has arrived at the International Space Station with about 8,000 pounds of cargo in tow. The S.S. Katherine Johnson, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, launched on Saturday from a NASA facility in Virginia and made it to the space station early Monday morning. It carries a massive amount of sci...

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Perhaps someday too many worlds beyond. this directive will ensure american space program once again leads and inspires all of humanity, the pioneer spirit is always defined america, and we are picking that up and many other fields. i think you see that. i think it is obvious. all you have to do is look at the market, all of the great things, we are leading in many different fields again. hell get more and more obvious you go along. after braving the vast unknown and discovering the new world ou...

The race for donald trump. because trump was actually struggling with some johnson voters who were anti-washington. and the more that he was exposed made trump look better. and i think some of those people gravitate. so congratulations, you may be responsible for the trump victory. >> any further got trump at the end of the campaign. not got hillary clinton again in the campaign. i think i did get a shot from gary johnson, because hes just willing to go in the barrel, get beaten up every time. h...

>> the more he was exposed made trump look better. some of the people gravitated. congratulations. you may be responsible for trump. >> i never got trump in the campaign. never got him again. i think i did get a shot from gary johnson, he is willing to go in the barrel. he is willing to get beaten up. he doesnt care. thank you. still ahead, the stars of the great new movie coming up movie "hidden figures." three african-american women, mathematicians who helped launch the american space progra...

The race for donald trump. because trump was actually struggling with some johnson voters who were anti-washington. and the more that he was exposed made trump look better. and i think some of those people gravitate. so congratulations, you may be responsible for the trump victory. >> never further got trump at the end of the campaign. not got hillary clinton again in the campaign. i think i did get a shot from gary johnson, because hes just willing to go in the barrel, get beaten up every time....

American space program. moments ago, the launch of the supersecret s-37 space train was delayed due to weather. the purpose of the mini space shuttle is unknown. the officials worry the craft is a possible weapon targeting their satellites. this delay comes hours after a bigger failure in nasa. the glory satellite failing to make orbit because of a flinch, the same glitch that brought down a similar rocket in 2009 leaving officials feeling pretty embarrassed. >> all indications are that the sate...

And endeavor will make the final flights and watch the blast off here on fox news channel and there is the video of them getting suited up earlier which is fascinating to watch but it is truly the end of an era. i remember when they first started taking off and what an amazing sight it was and watch them land on the back of the plane and this is you know, potentially the end of the current american space program, going into space, at least, they want to redo it and have more private enterprise i...