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Having salvaged the two satellites, NASA can now sell them (price: $35 million apiece). As they walked in space last week, Astronauts Allen and Gardner indulged in some Madison Avenue pizazz, jokingly holding a FOR SALE sign over one of the recaptured birds. NASA hopes the mission will put it...
> "The easiest way for an astronaut to find the earth in the darkness is to search for a disappearance of stars, to look for the curve of blackness seemingly cut out of the heavens. That blackness, that absence even of starlight, is the round and solid earth looming only 200...
Two days after Discovery's lift-off from Cape Canaveral, a rival space vehicle blasted into the heavens on a mission that was considerably less acclaimed but, for the commercial future of the U.S. space program, ominously successful. Ariane V 11, the latest effort of the eleven-nation European...
In the year 1006, the heavens grew suddenly bright as a spectacular astronomical explosion produced a new star as bright as the quarter moon and casting shadows on the ground.
The Soviet TV commentator was clearly excited. "The parachute is coming down, coming down!" he repeated rapidly. "Coming down!" Beneath the plume of a red-and-white chute one morning last week, a capsule drifted earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to...