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...ship roared higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
...highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions that...
...early October a 40-day window will open for the shuttle launch of Galileo, a craft that will head toward the sun, swing around Venus, and then use the earth's gravity to sling itself out to Jupiter. When it arrives in late 1995, Galileo will drop a probe into the seething maelstrom of the giant planet's atmosphere. Then Galileo will rove through the Jovian system to explore its moons...
Even before the Human Genome Project was begun by the NIH, others were deeply involved in probing the genome. Building on a long-standing program of research on DNA damage caused by radiation, biologist Charles DeLisi in 1987 persuaded the Energy Department to launch its own genome program. In addition to the sequencer and computer-hardware engineering projects, Energy Department scientists are focusing their attention on mapping seven complete chromosomes...
...field day poaching on the crippled airline's territory. TWA, Delta and Pan Am added flights on Eastern routes to capture its customers. Even Amtrak and Greyhound expanded their service to meet the new demand. TWA Chairman Carl Icahn confirmed that Eastern's unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment is coming to an agreement with...