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Featured article: May 9, 2008

Glynn Lunney is a retired NASA engineer. An employee of NASA since its foundation in 1958, Lunney was a flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and was on duty during historic events such as the Apollo 11 lunar ascent and the pivotal hours of the Apollo 13 crisis. At the end of the Apollo program, he became manager of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first collaboration in spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union. Later, he served as manager of the Space Shuttle program before leaving NASA in 1985 and becoming a Vice President of the United Space Alliance. Lunney was a pivotal figure in America's manned space program from Project Mercury through the coming of the Space Shuttle. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Space Trophy, which he was given by the Rotary Club in 2005. Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director, described Lunney as "a true hero of the space age," saying that he was "one of the outstanding contributors to the exploration of space of the last four decades." (more...)

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A common blackbird (Turdus merula) singing in a forest in southern Finland. (file info)

Featured picture: June 3, 2008

An American Medium Tank M3, commonly called the "General Lee" (after Robert E. Lee) in Britain, on training exercises at Fort Knox, Kentucky in June, 1942. At the outset of World War II, the M3 was developed as an interim solution to replace the outdated M2, before the M4 Sherman could be mass-produced. A slightly different model was known as the "General Grant" (after Ulysses S. Grant). M3 Lees and Grants saw heavy action in the North African Campaign.

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Featured list: List of Quebec premiers

Jean Charest is the current premier of Quebec.

This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec, Canada, since Confederation in 1867.

Premier (party)			Period	Assem- blies	Elections	District (region)
	1st	Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (Conservative)	July 15, 1867 February 25, 1873	1st 2nd ...	Elected Aug.-Sep. 1867 Re-elected Jun.-Jul. 1871 Resigned (moved to federal politics) Feb. 25, 1873	Québec (Québec)
	2nd	Gédéon Ouimet (Conservative)	February 27, 1873 September 22, 1874	... ...	Designated Feb. 27, 1873 Resigned (Retired) Sep. 22, 1874	Deux-Montagnes (Laurentides)
	3rd	Charles Boucher de Boucherville (Conservative) (1st time of 2)	September 22, 1874 March 8, 1878	... 3rd ...	Designated Sep. 22, 1874 Re-elected Jul. 7, 1875 Dismissed by L-G Mar. 8, 1878