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Last year, about a month into the pandemic, I reached for something comforting: the 1992 science-fiction novel “Red Mars,” by Kim Stanley Robinson. I’d first read it as a teen-ager, and had reread it a handful of times by my early twenties. Along with its two sequels, “Green Mars” and “Blue Mars,” the novel follows the first settlers to reach the red planet. They establish cities, break away from Earth’s control, and transform the arid surface into a garden oasis, setting up a new society in the course of a couple hundred years. On the cover of my well-worn copy, Arthur C. Clarke declared it “the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.” In my youth, I considered it a record of what was to come.
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to
finally launch this fall. The 21-foot-diameter infrared telescope, which will observe astronomical objects in unprecedented detail, is nearly a decade and a half behind schedule, after being originally slated for takeoff in 2007. It’s over budget, with a final price tag of $10 billion, up from an original estimated cost of $500 million. It also memorializes a questionable person.
The project was initially planned in the 1990s, during which time NASA chose the telescope’s name after NASA’s second director James Webb. Webb was appointed by John F. Kennedy and led the relatively new agency from 1961 to 1968. This was during the height of the space race, when NASA accelerated both its human spaceflight program including the Apollo program and its scientific missions. The robotic spacecraft NASA constructed under his tenure guarantee he’ll be remembered for the agency’s contributions to science and JWST is a way to make sure of t
Marquis Who s Who Takes a Fresh Look at STEM to Recognize American Influencers and Innovators for the May Installment of the Maker s List
Marquis also recognizes Asian American and Pacific Island Americans of influence in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month
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UNIONDALE, N.Y., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Marquis Who s Who (MWW), the world s leading biographical publisher, has released the May edition of the Maker s List to recognize
Influencers and
Innovators in STEM. For this month s list, MWW has reimagined the traditional definition of STEM to highlight Science, Technology, Education and Medicine. The Maker s List features some of the most influential individuals in their respective fields, selected from thousands of professionals across the country. Spearheaded by
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