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...there may be a safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending...
When the rites were over, the inevitable question lingered: After Tito, what? For months, Western leaders had barely disguised their apprehension that possible instability following Tito's death could inspire the Soviets to try to regain control over a onetime satellite that had escaped Moscow's orbit. But on the surface, at least, calm and order prevailed...
...book on the Mercury Project, Author Tom Wolfe contended that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, had plenty of the "right stuff." Though Glenn eventually traded his g-suit for a wardrobe more befitting a Democratic Senator from Ohio, he accepted an invitation from the U.S. Marines for a test spin in an AV-8A Harrier at Quantico, Va. A former test pilot, Glenn took the jet up to speed, made a couple of race-track turns and a few takeoffs and landings. Clearly, enough of the right stuff is left...
...policy review is a reaffirmation of restraint, since the U.S. wants to avoid permanently alienating Banisadr and his allies. Part of the Administration's thinking is based on the firmly held tenet that it is vital to long-term U.S. interests that Iran not fall into the Soviet orbit. Many Iranian officials agree; Defense Minister Mustafa Ali Chamran said that in the event of a Soviet attack Iran would expect the U.S. to come to its aid. The leaders of the revolution in Tehran, moreover, now seem to be taking seriously the Soviet military presence on Iran...
...designation for a kind of gravitational "hollow" that trails the moon in its orbit at a point equidistant from the moon and the earth. Lofted to this point, a spacecraft would remain locked in a fairly stable orbit around...