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Worth Taking Care of

“Earthrise,” taken on Christmas Eve 1968 from aboard Apollo 8, by astronaut William Anders, who responded to fellow astronaut Frank Borman’s comment about a picture, grabbed a camera, and took this breathtaking photo. It shows our home planet just appearing over the moon’s horizon.

Beautiful sight, isn’t it? And worth taking care of.

A High-Flying Job–Seeking Applicants

Here’s a job for an adventurous soul: astronaut. NASA is seeking people to “person” the next generation of space ships.  If this sounds like a job for you–even though it pays far less than what you’d get as a CEO of a corporation–check out the benefits and requirements at http://www.scribd.com/doc/72816419/Astronaut-Job.

Applications are supposedly available right now, but when I tried to get the link for you none of them worked.  I’m sure if you simply called the Lyndon B.Johnson Space Center and asked for an application for job #JS12A0001 they’d be more than happy to send you one….