“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Fear is met and destroyed with courage.” – James F. Bell
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“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The day, water, sun, moon, and night: I do not have to purchase these things with money.” – Plautus
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei
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42 years ago today, astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the space shuttle Challenger as the first human to undertake an untethered space...
42 years ago today, astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the space shuttle Challenger as the first human to undertake an untethered space walk. He used NASA's Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to control his movements rather than being joined to the craft by a safety tether. A picture of McCandless floating in space some 320 feet (98 meters) from the shuttle has become one of the most popular in the NASA archive. READ more about the nerve-wracking event... (1984)
