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...intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), for example, are the most accurate and powerful strategic weapons in the nation's arsenal, but the fixed underground silos in which they are stored also make them the most vulnerable. Airborne bombers, which can be recalled from attack up to the moment their nuclear payload is fired, provide a President with the most flexible strategic weapon currently available, but also the slowest. Submarine-based missiles are virtually undetectable by the Soviets, but at least until recently, they were considered less accurate than land-based or airborne missiles...
...astronauts were immediately faced with another dilemma. With its screen open, AUSSAT, which was scheduled to be deployed the next day, would probably be disabled by solar radiation while it sat unprotected in Discovery's open payload bay. The solution: AUSSAT was launched only 6 1/2 hours later, shortly before ASC1, a commercial satellite, was successfully deployed as planned, both on the first day in orbit. LEASAT 4, another orbiting link in the Navy's communications system, followed on schedule two days later...
...traveling get a special dispensation: they are required to pray only three times a day instead of the usual five. For seven days next month, however, one itinerant supplicant may find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great significance. More young...
...crowded press conference in Washington last week, Brigadier General Richard Abel, public affairs director for the Air Force, announced a new set of restrictions on press coverage of manned space shuttle flights carrying purely military payloads. Mission 51-C is the first such flight; dozens more are scheduled in coming months and years. The aim of the new rules, declared General Abel, is to "deny our adversaries"-i.e., the Soviets-information about the shuttle launch and its payload. The effort to keep the lid on promptly provoked a rush of news leaks and reignited the simmering debate between the press...
...would be on board or how long the mission would last. He promised that touchdown will be announced 16 hours in advance, and that the press would be informed about any emergencies. Far more ominous was his warning that any "speculation" by the press about the mission and its payload could set off an investigation for breach of national security...