In a controlled decent, Mir will reenter the atmosphere, most of it burning away as it falls. In many countries, doctors and healers rely on medicines derived from plants because they do not have the resources to use Western drugs. National Geographic assistant editor Joel Swerdlow spent five years studying nature's medicine and finding lessons for the developed world. Two days before Valentine's Day, NASA scientists are hoping that the asteroid Eros named for the Greek god of erotic love will welcome the NEAR spacecraft with open arms. Although travel to Mars was once science fiction, scientists are moving closer to making the flight a reality.
Destiny is finally here.
The research cornerstone for the International Space Station is set to be delivered on Wednesday. Jerri Nielsen went to the bottom of the world to provide medical services for a research team. For eight harrowing months she was forced to be her own doctor as she battled to survive in Antarctica. These days, it seems like scientists are searching everywhere for water on Mars. Geologists Timothy Grove of MIT and Harry McSween, Jr. of the University of Tennessee have been looking for Martian water right here on Earth.