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NASA Astronaut and HMS grad Robert L. Satcher during a July appearance at the school. File photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer |
Harvard Medical School grad heads for International Space StationIn an era when elementary schoolchildren can create exciting new worlds and explore them with the click of a computer mouse, will we again see bold explorers like Lewis and Clark or the Mercury Seven astronauts? Will we follow modern Jasons and their Argonauts through space in an age in which the nation’s deficit is soaring and equally alluring worlds in our body’s cells offer the potential to cure disease and extend life? Robert Satcher says we will. |
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