Flowers bloom on ISS
NASA astronauts have successfully gotten their zinnias to bloom for the first time.
As the article correctly notes, these are not the first flowers to bloom in space. Nonetheless, they represent an important achievement in making it possible for humans to live and survive in space.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
NASA astronauts have successfully gotten their zinnias to bloom for the first time.
As the article correctly notes, these are not the first flowers to bloom in space. Nonetheless, they represent an important achievement in making it possible for humans to live and survive in space.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Related, because its about agriculture:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/20/fred-flinstone-may-be-to-blame-for-global-warming.html
Is the implication here that early humans should have just committed suicide if they were to have known the effects of their actions? You can not walk up the street and not effect your environment.
Could early mans actions, as this article implies, have been the reason that the earth has not fallen into the next ice age? Is “global warming” the reason that the human race has gotten to this level of technology? If not for early man and his offences against the earth New York City might again be under two thousand feet of ice.
Thank you early man for your irresponsibility and selfishness.