July/August 2010

Late on Friday and Sunday nights, a group of mostly graduate students takes over the Campus Recreation Center pool. They mark off a 25-by-15-meter rectangle with white PVC pipe on the bottom of the pool. A lead disk coated with plastic is dropped in the center of the makeshift field. Two co-ed teams of six more

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By Marilyn Somers and Kimberly Link-Wills Alan Poindexter’s enrollment at Georgia Tech was part of his planned trajectory into the sky. “I had always wanted to be a Navy pilot. I knew that one of the ways to become a Navy pilot was through the ROTC program,” said Poindexter, AE 86, who followed his future more

By G. P. “Bud” Peterson Our space program, once the envy of every nation on Earth, has been showing its age of late. Its ambitions, though laudable, are starting to appear a little outdated. Technologies that once dazzled the masses now seem almost everyday and routine. Visions of new planetary terrain, once the fodder of more