NASA opens astronaut recruitment to women amid shuttle plans
NASA announces the first recruitment of astronauts since 1969 inviting qualified women and men to join the corps as the space shuttle program aims to expand missions. Fred Haise will command the first shuttle test flight with Charles Fullerton as a nonflight crew member. The new roles include pilots and mission specialists to operate payloads and conduct experiments on future flights.
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Josef Albers Dies at 88 in New Haven
Josef Albers, renowned artist and color theorist, died Thursday at Yale New Haven Hospital. He was 88. In 1971 his work received a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among the few held for a living artist.
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Johnson not duped into farewell at Ft. Bragg
Two officers who met Lyndon B Johnson at Fort Bragg in 1968 dispute a report that he was manipulated into a farewell to troops returning from Vietnam. George Coughlin and Lt Gen Richard Seitz call the Armed Forces Journal story exaggerated or false and defend Johnson’s brief appearance on the field.
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National Broadcasting Co establishes coast to coast network
On December 23, 1928 the National Broadcasting Company created a permanent coast to coast radio network linking stations across the United States. The move marked a major expansion in national broadcasting reach and set a new standard for synchronized programming.
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