Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check-out counter while a burly, bearded man looks on. Suggestions that the man might be James Lewis raised the chilling possibility that the Tylenol killer put the poisoned capsules on the shelf, then watched an innocent shopper buy them. But despite efforts by FBI specialists and NASA space scientists employing sophisticated computer-enhancement techniques to clarify the image, the man could not be identified as Lewis...
...upon them as primordial chunks of matter that offer clues to the solar system's formation. The budget-conscious U.S. has bowed out of the race to intercept Halley's comet with a robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called Giacobini-Zinner, which will appear a few months ahead of its famous...
Noting, for example, that the Soviet Union plans to build a large space station, Jastrow quotes the head Pentagon scientist, who last month suggested that the station "may be the forerunner of a weapons platform." That the USSR launched 125 satellites last year while NASA sent up only 18 leads Jastrow to suspect that some of the Soviet devices are actually "killer satellites that can lurk in orbit" for long periods of time until detonated from the ground. Jastrow most fears the Soviets may someday have enough such killer satellites to abruptly declare the space above the USSR off-limits...
President Reagan publicly joined the space arms race last July 4, the same day the space shuttle Columbia returned from its fourth and final test flight. Reagan announced that NASA would undertake "activities in space in support of the right of self-defense." Two months later, on September 1, the Air Force Space Command opened in Colorado Springs...
...comparison with NASA, SSI is a relaxed, unpretentious operation. "Mission control" consists of a few mobile homes, and Hannah's wife picks up litter around the compound. Last week's rocket watchers, snacking on shrimp, seemed like typical Texas partygoers. Indeed, said one cheery NASA alumnus, champagne glass in hand...