As a result, the new class of science-fiction writers who emerged in the 1980s did not gaze upwards at the stars, but down at their PC monitors.
And the people who do this work constitute a relatively new and growing class of science-trained professionals: clinical molecular geneticists.
According to a recent press release from the NASA Ames Research Center: "ChipSats such as the Sprite represent a disruptive new space technology that has the potential to both open space access to hobbyists and students and enable a new class of science missions".
But now mission controllers must "focus on new classes of science," the most exciting of which is using Spirit's radio signal to track the motion of Mars both in its orbit and in its spin on its axis.
A simple overview of evolutionary principles related to the Earth's history is also recommended in the first year of secondary school in the class of life sciences (Galvão et al. 2001).
"The first class of Schmidt Science Fellows have the intelligence, inspiration, and ambition to be leaders in science and society.
In one example, he applied a fundamental electrical engineering concept, Shannon's information theory, to a class of computer science questions called communications complexity.
We don't have the natural resources that you see from other African countries like Nigeria," said Antoine Sebera, who came out of the country's first undergraduate class of computer science students in the early 2000s and is now the chief human resources officer for Olleh, a mobile carrier.
As the hordes of young people advance across the campus, my father makes his way carefully to his next class, "History of Science".
The Physics Fair is an important part of the CLASS mission of science education and public outreach.
