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...reason to believe the talk is more than political posturing. Both Russia and the U.S. have powerful incentives to make a joint venture work. The Russians desperately need U.S. financial help to salvage their fast-crumbling space infrastructure. The U.S. wants to keep the attention of Russian scientists and rocket engineers focused on nonmilitary projects, rather than see them succumb to the lure of weapons work for other nations. Moreover, though America's manned space program is much healthier than Russia's, a tightfisted Congress keeps squeezing the agency's budget. The latest round of cost cutting will force NASA...
...vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts, as of a breakdown that could torpedo the schedule and drive costs up. That could prove fatal to a program...
...groups--notably Howard Hawks' gruff flyboy panegyrics Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force--the new film is also a splendid display of old-fashioned realistic special effects, which convince viewers not that they are in a cartoon but that they are inside a real rocket with real people who really might die. The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride...
...puns aside, in 1994 it got a lot, thanks to sophomore rocket Karen Goetze. The second team All-Ivy runner from Paris, France paced Harvard in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular with a first-place finish, helping the Crimson win the meet for the first time in eight years...
Rage-to-riches stories are not as common as we would like to believe. No matter how many "Mighty Duck" movies Disney puts out or how many times one watches "The Natural," it is quite rare for a cellar-dweller to rocket to the top of the standings...