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...four. The maximum payload is almost never carried. Yet to accommodate the highly unrealistic initial goals, engineers made the shuttle huge and expensive. The Soviet space program also built a shuttle, called Buran, with almost exactly the same dimensions and capacities as its American counterpart. Buran flew to orbit once and was canceled, as it was ridiculously expensive and impractical...
...acidic British political commentator is a perfect biographer for the disputatious Founding Father. Eternally at war with whoever seemed inclined to pull the Republic into Britain's orbit, Jefferson could be scheming and hypocritical. Hitchens is not blind to the man's shortcomings, especially his readiness to tolerate slavery for the sake of domestic political advantage. But he credits Jefferson as a chief engineer of "the only revolution that still retains any power to inspire...
...Tempel-1 orbit...
Essayist Walter Kirn's "Stuck in the Orbit of Satellite Radio" lamented the inability to hear local programming along vast stretches of the American landscape [May 23]. The dearth of interesting local programs is a direct result of the consolidation of ownership of radio, television and print media. Locally owned radio stations cannot compete with those owned by big corporations...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) interceded last week with a proposal to amend its regulations to ensure that it can properly enforce a law that prohibits “obtrusive” advertising in zero gravity. In a regulatory filing, the FAA said that, “Objects placed in orbit, if large enough, could be seen by people around the world for long periods of time...