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Despite some obvious similarities, the Soviet orbiter is a different bird from the U.S. species. Its wing angle and nose are sharper, perhaps giving it greater maneuverability. More important, as demonstrated last week, it is set % up for fully automated flight. Onboard computers can guide it through re- entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing. The ship is also capable of manned flight, carrying up to ten people, but the Soviets plan at least one more unmanned shot before putting a crew on board. "Just as we were scared to death by Chernobyl," explains a Western diplomat in Moscow...
...Center for Macromolecular Crystallography at the University of Alabama-Birmingham hope to learn more about the structure of the proteins, which may enable researchers to create new disease-fighting drugs. Other experiments scheduled during the mission included the production and study of crystalline organic thin films, evaluation of an onboard infrared communications system and the production in four space furnaces of special metallic alloys...
...when a covey of U.S.A.F. pilots converged in Washington last week for an Air Force Association symposium, shop talk indicated that the Stealth has a nickname. Pilots who fly the plane out of the Tonopah, Nev., Air Force base find it so tricky they call it the "Wobbly Goblin." Onboard computers are supposed to control the Stealth's performance, even at the highest speeds, but experts say the plane sometimes "gets away" from the pilot, who then has to take over manually -- and earn his wings all over again...
...praise for his steady conduct throughout the 17-day ordeal of Flight 847. Hammadi admitted in early August that he was one of the plane's two armed hijackers. Testrake not only confirmed this but also presented the most direct evidence so far that Hammadi committed the onboard murder of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem, whose body was dumped onto the Beirut airport tarmac...
...bright splotches suddenly appearing on the sun, bursts of X rays and charged particles are hurled outward at high velocities. Because protons from a large flare can easily penetrate the walls of a spacecraft and fatally riddle the body of an astronaut in half an hour, planners envision an onboard shelter into which the crew could repair as soon as a solar-flare warning was sounded. One idea is to build the shelter with the heavy-walled oxygen and water tanks that must be brought along anyway. Soviet scientists are experimenting with generating strong electrically charged fields around the spacecraft...