Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make. Eight days ago the universe-leading Red Sox were sighted somewhere on the far side of Mars, tooling for the World Series with all engines on full; now it looks like they might have been sold some bad liquid hydrogen by the shady character who runs the NASA-surplus parts shop down at Cape Canaveral. The thrust just isn't there. The Bosox have now lost seven of their last eight games, and their once-astronomical division lead has shrunk to a mere five-and-a-half games over the streaking Brewers, and a rapidly diminishing eight over...
There is some speculation that he may give up this opportunity and remain an engineer at the Ames Research Center, a NASA laboratory where he has worked since 1967. But he insists that he plans to study medicine, and his attorney, Reynold Colvin, says his client is no social crusader. "He's a private man who felt that he'd been dealt with unfairly," says Colvin, who has advanced his client much of the cost of the long campaign. "He has stuck with it because it's his dream to become a doctor. He's a determined gentleman...
...also made certain that the Presi dent would have a bouquet of good news for his hosts, ensuring a welcome in a state where his popularity has been falling fast. Carter announced that Ellington Air Force Base, which was scheduled to be closed, will be taken over instead by NASA -thereby saving about 1,000 jobs in the Houston area. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency will grant $6.4 million to expand a sewage treatment plant in Fort Worth...
...NASA officials originally expected Skylab to remain in orbit for at least a decade. That would have allowed ample time for the space shuttle to rendezvous with the space station and help boost it to a higher orbit, extending its lifetime indefinitely. But now the shuttle, plagued by engine problems, is at least four months behind schedule and there will be no manned flight before December 1979, which could be too late to save Skylab...
...What NASA did not reckon with was the unexpected intensity of solar disturbances accompanying the current sunspot cycle. More sunspots have appeared than were anticipated, great magnetic storms and solar flares are raging on the sun, and more charged atomic particles-which make up the solar wind-are being hurled into space. The stronger solar wind heats the thin gases in the outer fringe of the earth's atmosphere, which causes them to expand outward into the orbit of Skylab. That increases the drag on the craft...