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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instrument on board the cylindrical observatory is a 1,440-kg (3,200-Ib.) X-ray telescope, which is larger and has higher resolving power than any other ever built. From its perch high above the earth's obscuring blanket of air, it will provide new and sharper images of the myriad and puzzling sources of X rays found across the skies-and new insights into such bizarre phenomena as quasars, pulsars and black holes. As Harvard Astrophysicist Jonathan Grindlay put it: "We are at the dawn of a new era in our understanding of the universe." In honor...
Still more revelations about other members of the solar system will follow. Between January and July 1979, first Voyager 1 and then Voyager 2, each after traveling more than half a billion miles, will begin closeup photographic surveys of the giant planet Jupiter and its larger moons. The surveys will be made with television cameras that have as much as 40 times better resolution than the devices carried by Pioneers 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in 1973 and 1974, and returned color photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter...
...with the Saudis and discuss politely whatever financial problems may come up. On his weekend visit, Blumenthal pleaded with the Saudis to hold down any increase in oil prices that OPEC may decree next month. The U.S. is resigned to a 5% to 10% boost, but fears that a larger raise would damage a fragile world economy. The Saudis have been muttering about how nice it would be if the U.S. would sell them bonds with an exchange-rate guarantee that could be redeemed for more than their face value if the price of the dollar in other currencies continues...
Hunt praised the larger, lesser-known group of women who compromise the "other" portion of the roster for providing much of the enthusiasm and positive attitude that characterized this year's squad...
...those on the ground, the jumpers are hard to see at first as they pour from the plane, but within three or four seconds you can spot them, the sun reflecting off their jumpsuits as they cluster. They become larger, better defined as they fall closer-8,000 ft., 6,000, 4,000. Then the star bursts apart as each person turns by banking his body against the onrushing wind and tracks away from the others...