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...vote, the Senate quashed a piece of legislation that would have killed the space station project. Instead the lawmakers gave $2.1 billion to the NASA program, which aims to put a space station in orbit by 2002. Last November Russia signed on as a partner in the project, along with European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies. NASA claims the collaboration with Russia will save the U.S. $2 billion, but a study by the General Accounting Office says it will actually increase the cost by that amount. Opponents, notably Arkansas Democrat Dale Bumpers, have called the space station a "turkey" because...
...headed this way. Five years ago, a member of Shoemaker's team saw a chunk of rock perhaps a third of a mile across that had just zipped by the planet at a distance of only 450,000 miles. There are about 2,000 large bodies that cross the orbit of Earth and could, in theory, hit us. That is why Shoemaker and his colleagues have for years been urging a stepped- up program to search for Earth-crossing comets and asteroids. Now S-L 9 has spurred Congress to listen. Last week the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology...
Working for McDonnell Douglas in California, CHARLES CONRAD is involved in developing a single-stage rocket that may dramatically reduce the cost of sending payloads into orbit. "This is the first thing that's got my candle lit in 25 years," he says...
...presenting a balanced view of domestic violence. Your report states, "Often the drama is fueled by both parties." The media have otherwise toed the politically correct line of the brutal male perpetrator and the innocent female victim. However, both the male and the female are caught up in an orbit of mutual destructiveness. Why do we excuse women's behavior as the by-product of social conditioning while men are held fully responsible for theirs? Only by holding both genders accountable for domestic violence can we begin to address the dangerous fantasies and expectations that underlie physical abuse...
...soft, clear evening of April 14, 1961 -- two days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into his triumphal orbit and three days before the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion -- Kennedy tilted back on the hind legs of a leather chair in the Cabinet Room and, I believe, decided to send Americans to the moon. I watched it happen in one of those unusual episodes when Kennedy opened a window on the inner White House for an outsider. Maybe he understood that, as astronomer Michael Hart wrote, the moon landing would "be forever remembered as one of the greatest achievements...