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...Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wasted $3 million by using their own aircraft rather than commercial services between...
...experimental fusion devices as large as any under construction in the U.S. Experiments are under way to tap the abundant geothermal energy of Japan's volcanoes. In seismology, the Japanese are aggressively looking for early warning signals in their tremulous terrain. Though initially dependent on help from NASA, Japan's space agency is now launching satellites with its own rockets, and will attempt to intercept Halley's comet when that celestial object races around the sun in 1986; similar U.S. plans have been dropped. Even in fields where they are clearly behind, such as genetic engineering...
...terseness in their chatter. On Sunday, Ride and the three other space rookies aboard Challenger, all members of the 1978 class of astronauts, wore T shirts imprinted with their class initials TFNG (for Thirty-Five New Guys, even though six of the new guys happened to be women). While NASA'S doctors had yet to make a detailed examination of the biomedical data from the flight, every indication from Ride's performance pointed to the perfectly predictable conclusion that being a woman is no disability in space. Said Flight Director John Cox: "She showed that...
...next female astronaut scheduled to fly is Judith Resnik, 34, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Akron, who has a seat next March on the twelfth shuttle mission, along with Ride's husband, Astronaut Steven Hawley, 31. But NASA'S new ecumenical-crew policy goes beyond women. A mission specialist on the next Challenger flight will be Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion Bluford, 40, who will become the first black astronaut in space...
...count did not include NASA's own $135 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), which failed to reach geostationary orbit after its launch on Challenger's last flight. Technicians expect to nudge TDRS into proper orbit this week...