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AND IT WAS. THE SOLUTION WAS TO supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing...
A six-year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and...
He's lucky they don't. Watching Gramm maneuver, one easily understands why so many Americans deride the people they elect to office.
"At about 1:15 am (EST) Wednesday they will begin an extremely complicated ballet in space as they approach the Mir," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin of the planned rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over...
Throughout the 33-month investigation, Packwood's unrepentant hostility appalled the Ethics Committee, which is accustomed to deference and some measure of groveling. Instead of quickly coming clean on the sexual-misconduct charges, he essentially denied knowledge of his lewd behavior by blaming alcohol and charging his accusers of lying...