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Important, worthy projects, to be sure. But do they require a laboratory that costs $30 billion and is only expected to last for fifteen years? It would be much cheaper to launch unmanned satellites into orbit with experiments on board...
...been doing it for years with the Space Shuttle. Scientific instruments are normally carried on the shuttles, but the astronauts are not needed to run the experiments. Aside from a few maintenance-oriented missions, for which a human presence is required, Space Shuttle missions merely do what an unmanned launch could do--at many times the cost. Using most of NASA's resources on the shuttles and Freedom means that unmanned science experiments and missions are underfunded...
Before that comes a sketch of a youngish architect, Kay Fischer, who is trying to launch a career in Los Angeles in 1936. She meets a man named Salvador Carriscant, who claims to be her father, and eventually she accompanies him to Lisbon, where he promises to substantiate his story. That story is what follows. Why introduce it in such a distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman...
...scheduled to become the first to dock at Mir. At Discovery's controls on this mission: Captain Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft. Nineteen-year veteran Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov is also aboard. On a Soviet flight in 1983, he survived an explosion shortly after launch by catapaulting to the ground...
According to a written statement, more than two thirds of the school's faculty members have been directly engaged in Leadership and Learning since its launch. The faculty is currently concentrating on detailed planning and experimentation of the integrated curriculum proposals...