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...going to Halley's Comet...
...Space has never been so popular. The people who made Star Wars made $800 million-that's enough to fund three missions to Halley's Comet or build another space shuttle," Kent said...
...pull of Saturn's gravity. NASA's new boss, James Beggs, hailed the flight as "one of the really great scientific achievements of our age." But he refused to commit the Reagan Administration to any new space endeavors, not even a mission to intercept Halley's comet on its reappearance in 1986 for the first time in 76 years...
...space agency has also been forced to delay until 1988 a project to orbit Venus with a satellite that will scan its cloud-veiled surface with radar beams. In 1986, Halley's comet, perhaps a chunk of debris left over from the early solar system, will return to the earth's vicinity for the first time since 1910. So far the space agency has been unable to scratch up the money for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intercept this visitor from deep space with cameras and other scientific instruments. Says George Rathjens, former chief scientist...
...expensive-nearly a third higher than the original estimate. It is military oriented. Above all, it drains money away from such scientifically important unmanned space projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, long a foe, noted, "I've never seen so much hype in my life. We're launching a truck into space, and everybody keeps saying it's the Second Coming...