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...mission control inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the sense of calm was noticeably higher than that during liftoff nearly a month ago when two minutes into the flight it was learned that foam debris which doomed Columbia had also fallen from Discovery's detachable fuel tank...
...touched down in Florida, of course, it would have been easier to stick to their time-table. Before that next mission, NASA must continue to answer questions about foam debris. The growing consensus, however, is that personnel walking on the craft during preparations may have accidentally dented the external fuel tank, leading to the dislodged foam. In other words, NASA is beginning to think that is was not a problem with tank design...
...their canoe, Gasa and Kumana were on their mission to Gizo. "We saw a Japanese barge wrecked near Naru Island," says Gasa. "As we were almost naked, we decided to go to the wreck to look for clothes. We found fuel and bags of rice." A man called out to the pair from Naru's white sandy beach. "We thought he was Japanese, so we left him there," Gasa says. "We paddled a short way to Olasana to get coconuts." They later learned the man was Kennedy, who'd swum to Naru island to be closer to shipping lanes. "While...
...have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan's provinces outside Kabul effectively ruled by tribal leaders and warlords? Philip K. Lentz Amman, Jordan...
...been the sore point of the negotiations so far. The Europeans want Iran to stop all enrichment activity indefinitely; the Iranians say they have invested billions of dollars into their enrichment program and that it is their right under the NPT to be able to control the nuclear fuel cycle for peaceful purposes. Iran has been adamant about its enrichment program all along. Any talks that posit the termination of Iran's enrichment program as a necessary goal are likely to fail. For Iran, the optimal outcome of talks with the EU would be a package that involves great economic...