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...high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group of bored adults at the local airport, was an experiment to track the flight of a homemade rocket. It went up 15,000 ft. at a velocity of 800 m.p.h., and the memory of his gaping elders still gratifies Horner, who scraped through high school with a D average...
...Cristalleries de St. Louis, the 223-year- old French glassware manufacturer. Fancy a pair of calfskin-clad garden shears? (They will set you back $475.) A jungle-print bath towel? ($525.) A suitcase made of carbon fiber, adapted from the sheathing on the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket? ($5,450.) Dumas has expanded the product line to 30,000 items...
...discuss a plan code-named Operation Vula to seize power by force if negotiations fail. The meeting, De Klerk suggested, violated the agreement between the government and the A.N.C. to create a peaceful climate for negotiations. Government officials say that in smashing the plot, police uncovered weapons such as rocket- propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles...
Only one event brightened an otherwise gloomy week for the space agency. The first commercial version of the Atlas rocket was finally launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral. It lofted into orbit a satellite that in September will provide scientists with important data on radioactive damage to satellites in outer space...
...complex and subject to recurring glitches that have prevented NASA from ever achieving more than nine launches -- never mind 60 -- a year. Worse, since it depended almost solely on the shuttle to orbit satellites until after the Challenger disaster, the U.S. has fallen behind in the development of expendable rocket launchers. More and more U.S. companies are looking to the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket, which last week carried two television satellites aloft, for placing commercial satellites in orbit, and also -- now that Washington has given its approval -- to the Soviet Proton...