I hope you're still out there. You take a few days off for travel followed by illness, and you realize and awful lot of science has passed you by.
I promise to be more faithful about keeping you up to date on the wide world of science and technology.
By the way, we are coming up quickly on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik (October 4). That is two days before my birthday, and I always wish Mom has been able to rush it just a bit so I could share in the occasion. Anyway, the July issue of Air&Space includes a list of 50 ways to celebrate the occasion. I wrote them a letter reminding them they had missed the obvious: Read a book! Naturally, I recommend the most complete, yet concise explanation of those years:
The First Space Race
by Matt Bille and Erika Lishock
Foreword by Dr. James A. Van Allen
Texas A&M University Press
2004
Happy reading!
www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2004/bille.htm
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