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...Please-O-Meter, WW2 scores high, though one wonders whether kids will remember Wayne and Garth from two fads back, before Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-head. The other new comedies need never worry about fashion; B2 and SA2 are timelessly terrible. Perhaps, next time, the nuns and the St. Bernard should team up -- for Dog Act. And maybe someone could explain why moviegoers pay good money to watch inferior TV on the big screen. It's enough to give sequels a bad name...
These sources say the satellite, named Lacrosse, can form radar images of key Soviet military sites. US intelligence officials could use the information to confirm Soviet compliance with arms control treaties and to help guide the new B2 stealth bomber...
Solar Max had been built with retrieval in mind; it had a grappling pin in the middle of its belly. Palapa-B2 and Westar6 are of the old-fashioned expendable variety, with smooth sides and no handles. The stinger, measuring 64 in. and consisting of a pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could...
...maneuvers outside the ship may have been, they could not entirely erase the gloom cast over the mission by the loss of two sophisticated communications satellites. At week's end, NASA still could not explain why Western Union's Westar VI and Indonesia's Palapa-B2 had failed to achieve orbit, except to say that their rocket motors had apparently shut down prematurely before completing their scheduled 85-sec. "burns." The prime suspects are the bell-shaped nozzles from which the boosters' flaming gases are expelled. McDonnell Douglas, builder of the rockets, is assembling a board...
...failure immediately confronted NASA with the question of whether it should go ahead with the launch of Westar's twin, Indonesia's Palapa B2, scheduled for the next day. Palapa is to be used as a telecommunications link between the 13,677 islands of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago. At week's end, NASA decided to postpone the launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle...