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Strong winds along the shuttle's flight path caused NASA to postpone the launch, which was originally scheduled for Thursday. "The winds would have put too much dynamic stress on the shuttle," NASA spokesman Pat Philipps said...
...critical. Growing families or businesses or nations have a legitimate need to borrow if they're investing in the future. It makes sense to borrow for education, research, equipment and infrastructure that will make us more productive. We would be insane to stint in these areas. Is NASA a place to cut back? Hardly. NASA and high-tech programs like it are engines of our economic future. If we lose our technological edge, we've lost our economic future...
...Soviet Union's first reusable spacecraft orbited the Earth twice today and landed eight miles from its launch pad in Central Asia, marking the first unmanned space shuttle flight ever, a spokesperson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said yesterday...
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Caterina, educational representative for NASA, told an audience of about 200 people that the Soviets were able to complete a successful launch because they borrowed technology from the U.S. Space Shuttle...
...although the Soviets are now ahead of the U.S. in space development, NASA is about to perform new research that will fill the gap, Caterina said. A telescope that the space shuttle will carry into space this summer, for example, will allow scientists to expand the distance they can observe. Work has been started on Skylab Freedom, which Caterina said would make the U.S.S.R.'s current skylab obsolete...