THE power and Promethean force of a space rocket never ceases to amaze. When the space shuttle Endeavour took off yesterday, it was impossible not to be awed as it rose from the rumbling earth in a pillar of flames and heaving clouds of smoke. A space ship suggests that all of nature – even human nature – can be transcended. 

For homeschoolers who would like details on the mission, the NASA site has excellent descriptions of the particle physics detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2, which Endeavour will be delivering to the International Space Station.

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