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Space Exploration

Cite Discover timelines, data, slideshows, and features about space exploration, telescopes, the Columbia Disaster, Apollo 11, and more. Major Space Explorations Hubble Space Telescope…

Robert Stanley Biography

Robert Stanleypop artist used photographs and newspapers to create commercial works of artBorn: 1932Died: 1997Walter Sorell1997 DeathsDawn Steel

Angie Stevenson Biography

Angie StevensonAge: 33 a cross-country skier and biathlete; won the U.S. Summer Biathlon Championships in 1991 and 1995; of a self-inflicted gunshot woundDied: Bend, Ore., Feb. 13, 1997Dawn…

Bill France Sr.

Bill France Sr.Born: Sept. 26, 1909Stock car pioneer and promoter founded NASCAR in 1948; guided race circuit through formative years; built both Daytona (Fla.) Int'l Speedway and Talladega (…

Hal Haig Prieste 2001 Deaths

Hal Haig PriesteAge: 104 America's oldest Olympic medal winner; won a bronze medal in platform diving at 1920 Antwerp Olympics; played an original Keystone Kop in silent pictures, appearing…

Adelaide Crapsey: The Lonely Death

The Lonely DeathAdelaide CrapseyIn the cold I will rise, I will bathe In waters of ice; myself Will shiver, and shrive myself, Alone in the dawn, and anoint Forehead and feet and hands; I…

Joe Frazier Biography

Joe FrazierBorn: Jan. 12, 1944Boxer 1964 Olympic heavyweight champion; world heavyweight champ (1970-73); decisioned former champ Muhammad Ali in March 1971 in one of the most anticipated…

Heinz Prechter 2001 Deaths

Heinz PrechterAge: 59 car-parts manufacturer who came to the U.S. in 1964 as an exchange student from Bavaria and started making sunroofs in his garage. His company grew into an industry…

Future Missions

(Note: Dates are tentative.)SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) (Japan)AIM (U.S.)Herschel Space Observatory (European Space Agency)Dawn (U.S.) Phoenix (U.S.) Lunar Reconnaissance…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Going

by EmilyDickinsonA Country BurialXXVGoing Going On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair, So quiet, oh, how quiet! That…