Collins Task Force Says Aim for Mars (1987)

Source: Wired

The January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle accident laid bare many shortcomings of the U.S. space program. NASA, which only 14 years earlier had soared to the moon, had suffered chronic underfunding since the Nixon Administration (196 ...
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My First Gaming PC: A Love Story

Source: Kotaku

In the fall of 1992, my father drove me to a nondescript computer store in Alpharetta, Georgia and changed my life. Amidst the hum and buzz of countless white and beige boxes I found my first gaming PC. I wasn ...
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Piloted Split/Sprint Mission to Mars (1987)

Source: Wired

Sally Ride was a member of the 1978 astronaut class, the first selected for Space Shuttle flights. In 1983, she became the first American woman in space. Ride flew two Shuttle missions – STS-7 (June 18-24, 1983) and STS-41-G (October 5-13, 1984) – and s ...
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