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...space station and don't want any changes. By going along to get along, however, he robbed the station of its last pretext of a scientific rationale; on the new station, astronauts will have to live on the space shuttle and will be able to stay in orbit only 20 days -- so much for studying the effects of long-duration weightlessness...
There is yet one slim hope for a space station that plays a positive role in the universe. The special outside panel helping Clinton evaluate these plans recommended strongly that the space station go into a high-inclination orbit so that Russian spacecraft can visit from the Baikonur spaceport and perhaps perform rescue operations. Even that, however, might be too much for our partners. Launching at high inclinations reduces the shuttle's payload because the rockets get less of a boost from the earth's rotation; as a result, the Japanese and European modules may be too heavy...
...best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough. Let the Russians in, or stand aside and let the bum fall...
...most obvious difference between Sarah Mathews (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal Jackson (Ted Danson), as the least of their problems. It's not so much the discovery that, because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, Hal may be the father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...
...fiery, Jupiter-bright object that flashed across moonlit skies from Florida to New York early last Thursday morning was neither star nor planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve...