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...Moores, a Black & Decker engineer who helped design a lunar-surface drill for the Apollo program, mated one of his company's drills with an ingenious air-lock seal. An industrial vacuum cleaner at the site sucked the dust from around the hole once the drilling got under way. To see inside the vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site...
...field, Gilbert plans to start a company this fall aimed at mapping every single gene in the human body. Scientists say the project to decipher the human genome--the 100,000 to 300,000 genes that shape every detail of our bodies--represents an extraordinary effort comparable to the Apollo space program in the 1960s...
...Soviets' launch capability took a quantum leap earlier this year when they successfully fired off Energia, a booster as powerful as the mighty Saturn 5, which the U.S. developed for the Apollo program and then scrapped in favor of the shuttle. With Energia, the Soviets can loft 100-ton payloads, vs. a maximum for the U.S. shuttle of 30 tons. That is enough to carry their shuttle, which is under development, or to orbit parts for a space station far larger than Mir, which could be a platform for a manned mission to Mars. Says Dale Myers, deputy administrator...
DIED. Charles Stark Draper, 85, aeronautical engineer whose inertial- navigation system aided Apollo astronauts on their historic 1969 journey to the moon; of pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. An aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Missouri-born Draper was one of 15 scientists named TIME's Men of the Year...
...dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble dotard, West,/ Europe's worst dauber, and poor Britain's best . . ." He knew how to cater to Europeans' expectation that he, as an American, would be a cultural Natty Bumppo; when he went to Rome as a young man and was shown the Apollo Belvedere, the first nude sculpture he had ever seen, he endeared himself to connoisseurs by exclaiming, "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior!" Thus the white noble savage met the antique ideal, and West's name as a prodigy was made...