Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed space station, occupied by half a dozen men and women at a time, will orbit several hundred miles above the earth. It will open a new world of extraterrestrial opportunity that will include scientific experimentation, zero-g manufacturing, observation of the earth, and even the launching of spacecraft to remote parts of the universe. Reagan's rhetoric was euphoric: "We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful economic and scientific gain...
Indeed, just about the only headline-catching initiative in the State of the Union speech will be a proposal to put into orbit a permanent space station filled by rotating crews of astronauts. Otherwise, said one speech drafter, "this is not going to be a litany of new programs or a listing of everything that's going on department by department. We told the Cabinet to forget it." Instead, a draft that Reagan sent back to his aides last week, after personally rewriting two-thirds of it, stressed his accomplishments and hopes for the future. One aide summarized...
...scientists had high praise for the ingenuity shown by the men in orbit, like Mission Specialist Robert Parker, whose deft use of a sleeping bag provided a cover of darkness while he reloaded a jammed spool of film. Said one Houston observer, University of Naples Physicist Luigi Napolitano: "You know, without those guys, the mission would have been a failure on the first day." The astronauts also found time to clown for the TV cameras and take telephone calls from President Reagan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. But some problems simply had to be endured, like the accumulation...
...families, but the flight was not over for the other four crewmen. They were driven off to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards for a continuation of the rigorous biomedical tests, including highspeed whirls in a centrifuge, which had begun on the ground and continued in orbit. These are designed not only to discover ways of coping with space sickness but also to learn whether any significant physiological changes occurred after ten days of weightlessness. Until these examinations are finished this Thursday, the guinea pig quartet must remain in isolation. They can take comfort in the thought...
...pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since. A countervailing revulsion with growing American weakness-for example, economic prostration before OPEC and national humiliation by Iran-helped pull the Republican Party into the orbit of the Reagan right...