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...clear of the craft's wing. But both are designed to be used only when the shuttle is flying more or less level, at altitudes of up to 20,000 ft. -- well inside the earth's atmosphere. That might do some good in a mission aborted before going into orbit, or in the case of an anticipated crash landing. However, says ex-Shuttle Astronaut Donald Peterson, "it's like putting an emergency escape system in a car -- but you have to be driving between 29 and 33 m.p.h., at night, on an empty road." Needless to say, neither system would...
...similarity in outlook only heightens the deep differences in personality and style. In manner, temperament, perspective on life -- that amorphous bundle of characteristics that define a person -- Bush and Dole are like aliens from separate planets despite years traveling in the same orbit...
NASA's opposition was probably foredoomed. At $700 million, ISF not only is much cheaper than the big station but could go into orbit by 1991 -- five years after the successful Mir orbiter was launched by the Soviets, but six years before NASA's maxi-station becomes operational. Besides, say ISF proponents, it poses no threat to NASA. Designed primarily for materials research and automated manufacturing, it will use little new technology and carry no life-support systems for visiting astronauts. Explains Space Industries CEO Maxime Faget, an ex-NASA engineer: "We're an interim step toward the space station...
...this seems to have been accomplished on a shoestring. Farrar, Straus is well known for skimpy salaries. It has occupied the same dingy office space in downtown Manhattan -- far out of the midtown orbit of most of the giant firms -- for more than 20 years. Wolfe politely describes the low-rent decor as a "nice saggy-book look." The waiting area contains a desk and a single metal chair. But then no one waits very long. The thing authors like best about FS&G is that they get to meet the people who work there. Says Brodsky: "Other publishers could...
...which Washington does not have basing agreements at the moment, including Morocco and Israel, in part to "reduce the negotiating leverage" of current partners. Some highly advanced future technologies, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) and the proposed National Aerospace Plane, which is designed to maneuver both in orbit and in the atmosphere, might eventually allow the U.S. to operate out of domestic bases for some purposes. Yet such systems will take years, and billions of dollars, to develop...