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...completed. If the scientific data transmitted from orbit in just a single burst were lined up as small, text-size electronic symbols, one official calculated, they would extend from the earth to the moon. After preliminary analysis, Space-lab's international team of scientists, from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, were able to point to a number of important findings, including new insights into the body's reaction to weightlessness, a greater knowledge of the composition of the earth's atmosphere and invaluable experience in growing high-quality silicon crystals in microgravity...
...larder of food inexplicably spoiled (although there were enough fresh provisions on board to keep the spacemen fed). Communications links, already occasionally garbled because of a satellite problem, were hopelessly overtaxed. A major difficulty was the zeal of the ground scientists, about 200 researchers from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation of the spacemen rose. Snapped Mission Specialist Bob Parker: "I think you might be quiet until...
Dodging deadly snakes, poisoned darts and sadistic Nazis, Indiana Jones will dash into living rooms across the U.S and Canada this week. Paramount is releasing the eagerly awaited home video cassette of the 1981 blockbuster movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Retailers, already besieged by Indiana Jones fans and convinced that Raiders will quickly become the alltime home-video champ, have ordered a record 420,000 copies of the cassette. The two top video cassettes until now, Jane Fonda's Workout and Flashdance, have racked up sales of about 200,000 each...
...test flight, Spacelab will contain some 70 experiments designed by scientists from the U.S., Western Europe, Canada and Japan. Among them: a French experiment that will measure the radiation produced by sunlight's action on hydrogen; a West German high-resolution camera that will map the earth's surface; a U.S. study that may help explain the life cycle of stars and galaxies. Other tests will determine the advantages of fabricating specialized terrestrial materials (crystals, alloys, ceramics) in conditions of weightlessness rather than on earth. There are also studies to see how humble forms of life adapt...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Margaret Trudeau, 35, free-spirited party pepper, sometime photographer and current Ottawa TV show host; and Pierre Trudeau, 64, Canada's Prime Minister; after twelve years of marriage (including six years of estrangement), three children; in Toronto. She reportedly decided to end the marriage so she could wed an Ottawa real estate agent...