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...have been fortunate that former Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have...
...Soviet satellite named, in Moscow's prosaic nomenclature, Cosmos 1,383. Launched last June, it was the first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language": they must all be tuned...
...stunningly successful mission. And not just because of the enthusiastic presence of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and half a million other Fourth of July revelers. With Columbia 's fourth and last test flight, NASA declared its own independence from such costly and inefficient vehicles as the Apollo moonships that can make only one trip. Pronouncing its flying machine fully operational, the space agency signaled the shuttle's readiness to. carry cargo and passengers on a regular basis into space...
...budgetary setbacks, NASA officials took delight in Reagan's presence at Columbia's return from space. Though Reagan has shown only a lukewarm interest in space so far, he is the first President to watch a space landing since Richard Nixon viewed the splashdown of the Apollo 11 astronauts on their return from the moon in 1969. But Reagan in his speech at Edwards disappointed space officials by failing to order up a fifth $1 billion orbiter, or support what NASA sees as its next logical step in space: the construction of a permanent orbital station housing...
...Taras' observation suggests why the all-Stravinsky marathon was a success anyway. The troupe gathered and displayed its grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...