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| | Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - Lost In Space? |
 | | Timothy Ferris, professor of journalism, University of California, Berkeley; David Morrison, director of Space, NASA Ames Research Center; and Andrew Fraknoi, chair, department of astronomy, Foothill College, wonder what we are doing in space, and how the public is served by the billions we continue to spend. |
 | | And as it happens, this year at the age of seventy-six, John Glenn will be returning to space, orbiting in a space shuttle to test the effects of weightlessness on older persons. |
 | | But in terms of launching the space program so the speak for the United States, answering Sputnik in a way that was politically useful, I think we would all agree that it was useful to the program. |
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