(via) Flash forward to present day when, even after a heart-wrenching disaster on national television in which the shuttle Challenger exploded upon blast off, sending the country into a state of shock, we are still working on, experimenting with, and completely fascinated by rockets and their possibilities..
I often get a sense of the frustration of people doing ingenious work on experiments which are then canned because there is no money.
#HelpRequired.' Astronauts can set their cameras to take pictures automatically while they work on experiments, so they do not always know themselves and computer programmes cannot help.
The reevaluation is the latest fallout from President George W. Bush's decision in January to concentrate space station work on experiments related to human exploration (ScienceNOW, 14 January).
On the basis of the results and the previous work on experiments, we have built a 'triangle model of experimental governance' that proposes both vertical and horizontal dynamics within and between different functions and uses of experiments.
But if you go to graduate school to continue your education, and if you are able to teach subjects (or work on experiments) about which you are passionate -- then graduate study as a form of labor is far better than many entry level jobs in our economy.
"It's not that you are the only one doing the major work, of course; it is a collaboration of 3000 people working on one experiment," she says.
"When I was a graduate student, you worked on one experiment and that was your job," Worcester says.
Before hundreds of their cheering colleagues, scientists at the leading European particle physics laboratory pleaded with its managers yesterday to be allowed to continue working on experiments they believe may be about to answer one of thorniest questions in physics: what gives matter its weight.
B1 SCIENCE/HEALTH The Race for a Discovery Scientists at the leading European particle physics laboratory pleaded with its managers to be allowed to continue working on experiments they believe may be about to answer one of thorniest questions in physics: what gives matter its weight.
