Month: July 2019

  • What Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins feared most during critical NASA mission | Miles O'Brien Productions

    What Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins feared most during critical NASA mission

    This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon’s surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to dominate public attention, but it was pilot Michael Collins who flew the command module to the moon — and faced his own distinct…

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  • Does marijuana hurt or help your brain? Scientists rush to study the drug's impact | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Does marijuana hurt or help your brain? Scientists rush to study the drug’s impact

    As national attitudes and laws around cannabis use have evolved, so have the commercially grown strains of the plant. Some marijuana varieties today contain levels of THC, the drug’s psychoactive compound, as high as 50 percent, compared to around 5 percent a generation ago. But as PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports, the effects…

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