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"He'd always been a bit of the odd man out in the space program and certainly, at 41, although younger than Shepard, he was one of the senior members of Apollo. Oh, he looked and acted the part all right, with his sandy-haired, broad-faced, Midwestern looks and the languid drawl of a commercial airline pilot. But to the others, he was a bit of an intellectual: the only one among them with both a PhD and test-pilot credentials. The way he'd entered the space program had been decidedly left field. Getting his doctorate in astrophysics from MIT was the way he thought he'd be indispensable ?" - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The era of governmental solutions to national problems and challenges (Social Security, the GI Bill, the Great Society, the space program) that began with the New Deal ended—if not in reality, at least ideologically—with Reagan. The individual, the self, religion, and the family unit (leading to the 1990s ideological issue of "family values") were again paramount. And of course the 1980s also saw a renewal of the old American theme (or myth) of rugged individualism: Reagan on his horse, Oliver North going haywire, Rambo taking on an entire army." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The way he'd entered the space program had been decidedly left field. Getting his doctorate in astrophysics from MIT was the way he thought he'd be indispensable ?that's how deliberately he'd plotted his path toward NASA - and only afterward did it occur to him to boost the flying time he'd gained overseas to qualify. Nevertheless, Ed was no slouch when it came to flying. Like all the other fellows, he'd put in his time at Chuck Yeager's flying circus in the Mojave Desert, getting airplanes to do things they'd never been designed to do. At one point, he'd even been their instructor." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Some of the astronauts had thought about God while they were out in space, and everybody in the entire space program knew they were looking for something new about the way the universe worked. But if Alan and Stu had known that he was trying to transmit his thoughts to people on earth, they would have thought him more of an oddball than they did already. Ed finished the night's experiment and would do another one the following evening. But after what had happened to him earlier, it hardly seemed necessary any more; he now had his own inner conviction that it was true." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Through the years and even after the space program had fallen away due to lack of interest as well as lack of funding, Hal would retain a humble idealism about his work and the central role science played in the future of mankind. Hal firmly believed that science drove civilization. He was a small, sturdy man with a passing resemblance to Mickey Rooney and a sweep of thick chestnut hair, whose seething inner life of lateral thought and what-if possibility hid behind a phlegmatic and unassuming exterior. At first glance, he hardly looked the part of the frontier scientist." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In the space program, for example, when a rover will be landing on Mars and there will be no one around to fix something that might break, the engineers must do one of two things to assure the success of the mission. They either: (1) construct the one piece of the rover that the whole mission depends upon—the mission-critical piece—with such precision that it can't go wrong, or (2) build backup systems, and backups to the backups. Sometimes they even do both." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"By far the most ambitious developing-world space program outside of China is in India. India operates three launch facilities, and has put dozens of satellites into orbit. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has designed and built a wide variety of communication, weather, research, and observation satellites; ISRO has now embarked on the development of a series of satellites offering remote radar sensing, for use in urban and rural planning, resource management, and disaster-relief operations." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Many years earlier, while working for NASA on the Apollo space program, Dr. Jebson had helped to develop a specialized camera with a highly sensitive lens that could read the most precise and subtle planetary color changes in subdivided areas of a photograph. Now he was utilizing the same technology to read disease histories in the irises of people's eyes. When Dr. Jebson arrived at Uncle Bob's house, my brother, Doug, and I greeted him. "This camera," he said, "can give an in-depth tissue analysis and it can move past the iris to photograph the optic nerve." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Dazzled by the success of the space program, they were sure something comparable could be achieved against cancer. Bobst helped persuade Nixon to make it his administration's top public health priority. Yet despite the enthusiasm over chemotherapy, despite even the 1964 surgeon general's report on smoking and cancer, by the time Congress began to debate the National Cancer Act in 1970, funding for the National Institutes of Health was dropping fast. The Laskers and their influential associates knew they had to drum up public support." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Youll learn about devices that interact with the human body's biofield from Edgar Cayce's Radiac Appliance to a secret Russian technology developed for their space program (see SKENAR). Youll learn about health techniques from old-time Dowsing to the latest uses of quantum science. As you read through this section youll discover many common threads that run through these techniques. All of these subjects use human energy for healing, or more accurately there are many different ways to improve the flow and function of life-force energy so the body can heal itself." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Turning our backs on space exploration means cutting ourselves off from a chance to really know Earth. A space program with a planetary focus would combine current research into our planet's climate and geography (much of which can only be done from orbit) with expanded research into the workings of the rest of our solar system. Plenty of big questions about our planetary neighbors remain unanswered. Venus, Earth, and Mars all orbit within our sun's "habitable belt," and there is some preliminary research suggesting that each may have started out with similar potential for life." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"It was used by Russian athletes to prepare for the Olympic Games in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was included in the space program for cosmonauts in 1977. Eleuthero was never referred to as Siberian ginseng until it was first marketed in the United States in the late 1960s. We will refer to the plant as eleuthero, which is the name adopted in the American Herb Products Association's publication Herbs of Commerce. Clinical Research—Eleuthero After the early 1960s, Russian scientists conducted hundreds of clinical studies involving thousands of people." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Fulfilling Your Dreams I recently watched a program on the Apollo space program, and heard several astronauts discuss their lives, their space training, and finally their experiences of walking on the moon. One astronaut told of an incident from his childhood. He was outside in the garden with his mother, and when he looked up the moon was visible in the sky. He spoke to his mother and said, "Mom, someday I will walk on the moon." She, of course, replied that he was crazy and that was not possible. He should put that idea right out of his head, young man." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"For now, and likely for the next couple of decades, a green space program would not mean sending people into space. Instead, it would mean mounting a much more ambitious (and well-funded) effort to send robotic explorers throughout the solar system—and beyond. Automated science missions have done remarkably well considering how little money has been made available to them." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "They envision a space program designed to allow us to just ditch our tortured planet as soon as we have space colonies ("No leaving the planet, boys," one bumper sticker reads, "until you clean up your mess."). But their fear is largely unfounded and exceptionally shortsighted. Literally and figuratively, we can't see the whole planet unless we look at it from space, and we can't really understand it unless we can see it as a whole. To really protect the planet, we sometimes have to leave it." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"This knowledge, combined with the fact that OTRAG's space program served all the needs articulated by Kissinger's State Department, made me think that Hussain and not Szulc was purposely spreading disinformation. Additional evidence for this conclusion came from U.S. Representative W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. who stood before the U.N. General Assembly on October 18, 1976. The congressman, then, defined OTRAG's market and indirectly linked OTRAG to German-American efforts to develop space programs for USAID, NASA, and NATO." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

"Russian cosmonauts also used Siberian ginseng in their space program in the 1970s and found it to be significantly helpful. Note: Getmany's Commission E, a division of the German Federal Health Agency, recommends that Siberian ginseng not be used in cases of high blood pressure. Gum Karaya (Stercutia urens) Sterculia comes either from Sterculius, of Roman mythology, or from stercus, meaning "manure," because the leaves and fruits of some species have a patticular odor; urens means "burning" or "stinging." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Of course Carter himself, having been trained as a nuclear technician in the Navy during the Sputnik era, when America rushed to catch up with the Russian space program (another heroic and successful exploit of technological research and development), tended to believe that a crash program in alternative and synthetic fuels would yield some miracle replacement for fossil fuels. And the hopes Carter planted in a series of 1979 speeches still affect our national psychology, though we are no closer to developing significant replacements for oil a quarter century later." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"So, did the Russian space program accept Dr. Baranov's recommendation? Did they give the adaptogen formula to cosmonauts in missions conducted during and after 1994, the year that Dr. Baranov submitted his report? We suspected that they did, given their concerns about the dangers inherent in space travel and the strong evidence of adaptogens' benefits under such extreme conditions. But until recently, we couldn't be certain. The Russians maintained a high level of secrecy, even during their joint collaborations with NASA on space station Mir." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Early in the development of their space program, the Soviets realized that the success of their missions depended on the ability of their cosmonauts to overcome extreme stress and function as team players. With this in mind, the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP)—under the direction of Dr. Victor M. Baranov—extensively tested the adaptogen formula ADAPT, a blend of Rhodiola rosea, Schizandra chinesis, and Eleutherococcus senticosus. The hope was that the formula (also known as MPPA, which stands for mono- and polyphenolic acids) would improve alertness and resistance to stress." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"This was when the Russian space program was being watched by the rest of the world and maintaining national prestige was of paramount concern to the Soviet government. It was essential to come up with something radically new. It had to be light, easy to use and, of course, really effective. Bioresonance technology was the only extant medical paradigm capable of delivering these stringent requirements." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

"U.S. space program. As part of the 1966 Gemini 12 flight, Aldrin took a historic 5 1/2-hour walk in space, demonstrating that humans could survive in its vacuum. In 1969, Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins formed the crew of Apollo 11. In a separate landing vehicle, Armstrong and Aldrin touched down near the Sea of Tranquillity and became the first humans to walk on the moon. Alexander the Great, b. Pelle, Macedonia, 356 B,C,: d. 323B.C. Macedonian King. Alexander, who became king of Macedonia in 336 B.C., was one of the greatest military leaders in history." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Another group of useful robots began with the space program. The best examples are the various Mars rovers, such as Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity which move through the landscape, detecting obstacles and compensating for them, and also sample and analyze rocks and soil. Because of the time lag for signals to reach Mars from Earth and return, the rovers had to be given robot skills. In some companies today, robots deliver mail, following a programmed path, but also sensing obstacles and avoiding them. There are also robot vacuum cleaners, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers available." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "In 1964 Glenn retired from the space program, and in 1978 he was elected U.S. senator from Ohio, serving four terms. He returned to space aboard the Discovery in 1998, at age 77 the oldest person ever to do so, as part of research into weightlessness and the aging process. Godard, Jean-Luc, b. Paris, 1930. Film Director. The most controversial member of the French New Wave, Godard is known for the radical form and political content of his films." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "While much of his administration was dominated by cold war events (a failed invasion in Cuba, the Berlin Wall Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam), Kennedy pushed for the space program, civil rights legislation, and efforts to eradicate poverty. His assassination on November 22,1963 stunned the nation. The Civil Rights Movement Not all Americans shared in the prosperity and optimism of the post-war period. By the mid-1950s African-Americans in the South began to demand civil rights and an end to state-sponsored discrimination. In 1954 the Supreme Court issued Brown v." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Russian space program. The space module traveled to Mir with experimental equipment and solar panels to supplement the aging solar arrays on the space station, which at the time had been orbiting Earth for more than 10 years. Spektr docked in one of M/V's six ports. A Russian shuttle craft called Soyuz, which had transported crew members to the space station, sat in another. On September 25, 1997, U.S. astronaut Mike Foale was aboard Mir with two Russian cosmonauts, Commander Vasily Tsibliev and Alexander Lazutkin, when a potentially catastrophic collision occurred." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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