Word: halley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probe to Halley's comet? No solar polar mission? No Venus probe, no Galileo project for Jupiter, no deep-space network? Will future generations look back to say, "The 20th century? Oh, that was when they smoked pot and built atom bombs." Or will they say, "The 20th century? That's when they opened up the universe...
...called the Inter national Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). Two unmanned spacecraft were to be sent in great, looping orbits over the unexplored poles of the sun. Last week J.P.L. officials gloomily conceded that they had finally given up hope of launching a once-in-a-lifetime mission to intercept Halley's comet. This primordial chunk of matter, which returns to the sun's vicinity in early 1986 after an absence of 76 years, could provide invaluable clues to understanding our solar system's origins. Now it will be examined only by less sophisticated European, Soviet and Japanese...
...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...
...powerful 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...