Nimoy and other Star Trek cast members celebrate the unveiling of the NASA space shuttle 'Enterprise', 1976
NASA:
NASA is mourning the passing today, Feb. 27, 2015, of actor Leonard Nimoy, most famous for his role as Star Trek's Vulcan science officer Mr. Spock. The sci-fi classic served as an inspiration for many at NASA over the years, and Nimoy joined other cast members at special NASA events and worked to promote NASA missions, as in this 2007 video he narrated before the launch of the Dawn mission to the asteroid belt. Nimoy also was there for the 1976 rollout of the shuttle Enterprise, named for the show's iconic spacecraft.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—NY-Sen: Harold Ford won't run for Senate:
I was really looking forward to this primary. Unfortunately, it's not to be.
Under intense pressure from Democratic Party officials, Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman, has decided not to challenge Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the primary this fall, according to two people told of his plans.
He has told friends that, while he is convinced he could prevail against Ms. Gillibrand, he feared the winner of the primary would have little money and remain highly vulnerable to a well-financed Republican challenger at a time when the Democratic party controls the Senate by a slim majority. […]
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He never would've come close to victory. He was a joke from Day One, and his role over the coming months, had he run, would've been that of comic relief.
Alas, we'll have to get our laughs elsewhere.
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Republican Sen. Roy Blunt on voting against funding Homeland Security: "Most of the employees will show up, anyway." Good one, cheapskate.
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