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...this time became the first woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty valve assembly on the main propulsion engine. Says one admiring NASA official of the complex repair chore: "It was one helluva job to do, but the Soviets...
When electrical problems delayed the launching of the space shuttle Discovery last June, NASA blamed a faulty microchip supplied by Texas Instruments. Now the Pentagon is trying to determine whether defective microcircuits from T.I. are also embedded in the computer systems of many of its high-tech weapons. Defense officials last week embargoed deliveries of military equipment containing the suspect chips and disclosed the "possibility of a criminal investigation" into how T.I.'s chips were tested...
Moving to expand a whole new field of astronomical research, NASA has announced plans for a satellite that will survey the sky's entire band of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, just as the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) did for the other end of the spectrum...
...actual design of the satellite has not yet been chosen, but its scientific payload--four highly advanced telescopes and a spectrometer--is known and NASA says that the EUV Explorer (EUVE) will be launched by the space shuttle...
With the Discovery flight over, NASA announced that it planned to fly one ship each month for the rest of this year and eleven in 1985. A jubilant President Reagan has declared that the first nonpaying private passenger of some future shuttle would be an elementary or secondary school teacher. Still, NASA will not rule the skies uncontested; if anything, the competition aloft* is growing more fierce: the European Space Agency is becoming an increasingly aggressive contender for commercial cargo and the Pentagon is planning to divert some of its space payloads to its own expendable rockets. But despite some...