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...epochal departure, determined by faint signals from Pioneer 10 picked up by NASA'S tracking antennas, occurred early this week when Pioneer crossed the orbit of Neptune, currently the outermost planet.* At that moment, it was 2,813,685,909 miles from the sun and moving at a brisk 30,558 m.p.h...
...after the shuttle swoops around the temporary satellite for some nine hours, Ride and her unique arm will try to grapple it back on board. The experiment is a test of the shuttle's ability to retrieve and repair ailing satellites; at least one of those now in orbit will get shuttle-delivered doctoring on a future mission if Ride is successful...
...public figure and has taken on such ceremonial chores as addressing a huge peace rally in Moscow's Olympic stadium last month. But if Tereshkova's mission was so successful, why did the Soviets wait 19 years before they sent a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, 34, into orbit last summer...
Western Europe-with its huge economic potential, its industrious 236 million people-is critical for both Europeans and Americans. Should it slide slowly out of the alliance orbit in order to seek accommodation with Moscow, the global balance of power would change drastically...
...Although Andropov's response noted that Moscow had presented a draft treaty to the United Nations in 1981 calling for a ban on weapons in space, he failed to mention that the Soviet Union has already tested an ASAT, or antisatellite interceptor, capable of destroying a satellite in orbit. The U.S. began in the early 1970s to develop a similar weapon...