The elder spaceman
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The elder spaceman
Usually, when scientists call a news conference, it’s to announce new results from a study. But when NASA calls one to talk about the space shuttle, chances are the topic won’t be results — it will be about unrealized plans. And, in the case of John Glenn, that’s probably a good thing. The US senator’s nostalgic return to space came 36 years after he became the first American to orbit the earth...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(07)00542-8