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...Orbit--1369 Club...
...mistake to neglect political freedoms. Says Hoveida: "It was more important to have a four-lane highway than to show an interest in political institutions. Economics was our No. 1 problem. Politics was subservient to the economy. But we have been able to get this country out of the orbit of underdevelopment. Now how do we get our spaceship to enter the orbit of developed nations...
...Skylab space station [Aug. 14] does not need to be sacrificed if we are willing to swallow our pride and ask the Soviets to attach the modest rocket boosters to Skylab that will raise it to a temporarily safe orbit. They are clearly able to do this right now, as numerous recent exploits indicate...
...scientific meeting in Manhattan, Lowell Wood, a young physicist from California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, delighted his colleagues (although he did not exactly convince them) with a plan to give the earth a virtually limitless energy supply. He suggested tapping the energy of a mini-black hole in orbit around the planet. From a spacecraft orbiting at a safe distance, pellets would be fired at the hole. This would create so much heat that the energy could be converted into microwaves and beamed down to earth. Even Wheeler, who is now at the University of Texas, and his former student...
...Space Telescope, a 2.4 m (94 in.) mirror scheduled to be placed in orbit by the space shuttle in the early 1980s. Flying above the obscuring atmosphere, this observatory should pick up a variety of celestial phenomena, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and reveal hidden structural details of galaxies that may harbor black holes...