Word: jointly
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...Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year...
...idea of a joint U.S.-Soviet Mars mission is galling to other Americans who, glasnost notwithstanding, simply do not trust the Soviets. Their view was summarized in a recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Space Writer Alcestis Oberg, the wife of James Oberg. "A joint mission," she wrote, "completely and utterly ignores reality." Among the concerns raised by the proposed mission, she wrote, are the "potential for spying, for technology transfer, for interference in our political system, for the 'hostage holding' effect it would have on our space program and on our future." Her conclusion...
Even proponents believe the U.S. should approach a joint effort with the Soviets in gradual steps, perhaps starting with an unmanned mission to bring back soil samples from Mars in 1998. Many, like Sagan, are convinced that the advantages of a cooperative mission would override the possible risks. Besides sharply reducing the enormous costs of going to Mars alone, such a venture, says Sagan, "would revitalize a dispirited and unraveling NASA" and provide a "coherent focus for the U.S. space program...
...problem, says the OTA study, is that most U.S. managers, under pressure to show short-term profits, adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward innovation. Meanwhile, their foreign competitors, backed by government support, seek out | commercial applications more aggressively. Some proposed solutions: more joint ventures among industrial companies and increased Government funding of commercial development...
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