Voyager Has Left The Solar System
It's an amazing achievement. Voyager, a man-made object, has traveled more than eight billion miles, at tens of thousands of miles per hour, is more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is, and is entering interstellar space. Nothing solid has ever left Earth and...
Everybody Must Get Cloned
"We made a baby without a mommy or daddy!" That's approximately the announcement made about a week ago by Brigitte Boisselier, the CEO of Clonaid, the group that claims to have cloned a baby girl named Eve from a 31-year-old woman. Pardon my skepticism, but yeah,...
Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director
Here’s my conversation with Gene Kranz, longtime Flight Director at NASA Mission Control about his autobiography, “Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.”
Science Marches On
Labor Day is here, and Just Plain Harris returns from summer vacation! Our first class of the new school year is science. Let's begin with the team of scientists from Canada, America, Britain, and Norway, who have been working in Oslo, Norway, exhuming the bodies of...