Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...
...Mission to Planet Earth would go a long way toward answering critics who have insisted that the U.S. space program has for years had no clear mission. If NASA gets the go-ahead, the project, which would cost an estimated $20 billion over the next two decades, could begin by 1996 with the launching of the first of a pair of 15-ton unmanned space platforms called the earth- observing system (EOS). Designed to operate for at least 15 years, the satellites would give scientists their first comprehensive look at just how the world's environment changes over time. Detectors...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...
SPACE: A mission to measure the earth's vital signs...
Seeking a pivotal role in the campaign to save the planet, NASA is developing a long-term program of satellite flights designed to monitor intensively earth's ecological problems. Data received from sophisticated instruments aboard orbiting unmanned space platforms would help measure pollution, deforestation and other global threats. But funding for the proposal, which could eventually cost $20 billion, remains uncertain...