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SPIRITS must be high in the Soviet Union these days. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the launching that made Sputnik I the first man-made object to orbit Earth. In America, broad-minded thinkers like Isaac Asimov took the occasion to reflect optimistically on space exploration as mankind's first step towards a broader vision--"a view that presents Earth and humanity as a single entity." But Asimov's idealism has not infected American military leaders, who now plan to make space yet another theater of operations in the modern superpower cold...
...international radio frequencies for distress calls (121.5 and 243 megahertz). Though the U.S. and Canada tested such electronics on earlier American satellites, the first true U.S. SARSAT will not become operational until next February, when the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's latest Tiros weather satellite goes into orbit...
...reckoning, a plausible venture. He and his 56 fellow investors in SSI, nearly all oil-industry friends, have already run through $6 million, and must raise at least another $15 million before their venture can earn a cent. The business plan: putting telecommunications and earth-scanning satellites into orbit, at about $5 million a shot, for companies that want a rocket all to themselves or do not want to wait for cheaper space on NASA'S booked-up space shuttle. Hannah says a dozen energy companies are interested (they might conduct geological surveys from space), and SSI hopes...
...Savitskaya, who blasted off with two male crew mates in the Soviet spaceship Soyuz T-7 on Thursday. She was only the second woman, after fellow Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, to make such a flight. With a superb sense of timing, the Soviets had sent Savitskaya into orbit in Unispace 82's closing hours...
BORN. To Rhea Seddon, 34, one of eight women astronauts and an M.D. trained to conduct experiments in orbit, and Navy Lieut. Commander Robert L. Gibson, 35, also an astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control...