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Inspired by such cosmic wanderlust, Reagan is ready to move on from the space shuttle to what NASA calls the "next logical step": a permanent manned space station. Still on the drawing boards, the space station would house half a dozen people for three-to six-month shifts in roomy shirtsleeve comfort. Weighing some 180,000 Ibs., it would have to be erected in space like a giant Tinkertoy, using some of the techniques demonstrated by Astronauts Allen and Gardner last week. The Administration puts the space station's cost at $8 billion, a figure that may be grossly...
...cosmic rays of a nearby supernova may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs," he says. But, he adds, there are currently no stars close enough to place the planet in danger...
...mission, the Soviets were marking a significant space anniversary. It was on Oct. 4, 1957, that Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was launched, its thin, metallic beep announcing that the space age had begun. Since then, the Soviets have scored a notable string of other cosmic firsts: the first animal in space (a dog), the first man, the first woman. The first space walk was taken by a cosmonaut. The first pictures of the moon's hidden side were shot by an orbiting Soviet camera. The first simultaneous launch of two manned flights...
...clearly can effect the earth. If the solar system passed through the Oort cloud, a bombardment of comets would shake loose. Even if a small fraction of them made contact with the earth, the impact would blow enough debris into the atmosphere to cut off sunlight and cause a cosmic winter, ultimately extinguishing most of the life on the planet...
MacLaine concedes that one of the reasons she has had no major romantic involvement "for a while" is that she "would have to find a man who shared my spiritual beliefs." Hamill bluntly dismisses these beliefs as "intellectually ridiculous." Says he: "Shirley always has had a tendency to go cosmic on small evidence, to start with the general and find specifics to buttress her belief. She doesn't read very much." He speculates that her fascination with the spirit may, like her past absorption with politics and travel, turn out to be "a phase that she will exhaust...