Chaser Good girl!
Chaser learned a LOT of words: more than 1,000.
From This is True for 28 July 2019
Volume 8
2018-2019
Christopher Kraft Jr. Flight director
Kraft “personally invented the mission planning and control processes required for crewed space missions.”
From This is True for 21 July 2019
Fernando Corbató Password inventor
You type passwords into computers: Corbató invented that.
From This is True for 14 July 2019
Bob Gilliland Fast pilot
Gilliland clocked more experimental hours flying above Mach 3 — and above Mach 2 — than any other test pilot in history.
From This is True for 7 July 2019
Luis Alvarez First responder
Since Alvarez was on duty on 9/11, he had the health care he needed — but many others didn’t, he said, and that’s who he was fighting for.
From This is True for 30 June 2019
Dave Bartholomew Rock pioneer
One of New Orleans’ greatest musicians, “and a true pioneer in the rock and roll revolution.”
From This is True for 24 June 2019
Francine Shapiro EMDR developer
Shapiro created EMDR, a psychological treatment that actually works.
From This is True for 16 June 2019
Bill Wittliff Screenwriter
Wittliff had a knack for writing hit screenplays.
From This is True for 9 June 2019
Robert Bernstein Publisher
Bernstein was a shrewd businessman who realized that human freedom was as good for business as for humans.
From This is True for 2 June 2019
Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
Gell-Mann bringing order to particle physics led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.
From This is True for 26 May 2019