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First Flight of Columbia
Shuttle Columbia glides to its first landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
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Space Services Inc. attempt to be the first privately owned company to launch a rocket into space ended in a big bang, Aug. 5, 1981.
Space Tile
Glowing at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, space shuttle cube is held by bare handed technician. The tiles, made of pure silica, are the secret to the shuttle's re-entry success. They cool quickly, shielding the ship from heat.
Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot
A massive international aid program at the camp is helping to feed many of the young minds as well as the stomachs. Breaking off from their morning assembly, school children walk in line to begin the day's lessons. Below, a boy practices the Somali…
Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot
On the frontiers of existence, thousands of refugees of the Ogaden war crowd their huts together at Las Dhure camp in Somalia's Northwest region. A plague of disease hangs over this camp like the early morning fog. Tuberculosis and malaria are…
Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot
Somalia looks like a land forgotten. Seven years of drought, a depressed economy and war against Ethiopia over the Ogaden has fed Somalia's problems while her people starve. Here, a young Somali, his head shaved to prevent lice, cradles a baby goat…
Somalia, The Land Allah Forgot
His funeral was like any other daily event at Las Dhure, just another malnutrition victim.
Somalia--The Land Allah Forgot
The right to life pales before the scourge of hunger among refugee children, like this month-old infant held by a German Red Cross worker at Las Dhure camp. The boy's relatives kept him barely alive on a diet of sugar and water after his mother died…
Somalia--The Land Allah Forgot
Once a proud desert nomad, now a victim of war, an elderly refugee lies weakened by malnutrition and tuberculosis in a camp clinic. Highly contagious, tuberculosis patients are quarantined in separate areas.
