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...next logical step": that is what NASA planners are calling their dream of a permanent manned station in orbit. Such a development, they argue, would help bring about the era of cheap and easily accessible exploitation of space for science, technology development and commerce. Yet while NASA is still trying to garner support for its vision, the Soviets are already pushing ahead to build their own permanent space station...
...There's a wealth of good will there," says Glenn Spokesman Greg Schneiders. "But it's superficial and uninformed." Indeed, out on the campaign trail these days, the question most asked of the first American to orbit the earth is what it was like to step on the moon (He never did.) Among the 15,000 people who turned out for the Fourth of July parade in Clear Lake, Iowa, in which Glenn rode in a 1964 Chevrolet convertible, was Jim Conrin, 63, farmer and loyal Democrat. Mondale, he said disparagingly, was "an establishment politician," but he noted...
...able to try out its new concrete shuttle landing strip at Kennedy until early next year. Reason: Challenger's next flight involves both a nighttime lift-off and landing, while on the mission after that, a refurbished Columbia, NASA'S other operational shuttle, will return to orbit carrying the heaviest single cargo to date, the 34,500-lb. European-built space lab. NASA does not want to risk a landing on the relatively narrow, marsh-lined Kennedy runway during either mission...
...member crew, the largest yet to fly on a shuttle. Barely a day after their flaming on-time liftoff, Crippen and company set out two commercial communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian. By week's end the satellites had completed their long six-day climbs to "geostationary" orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. "That's four for four," Ride announced proudly, tallying up the number of commercial satellites successfully launched by the shuttle...
...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...