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Remember Madame Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society and revealed the secrets of the universe in Isis Unveiled. There were sightings of spaceships in the 1890s, at a time when no American had ever seen an airplane, much less an Apollo rocket, but then as now a century was coming to an end. Mars was once widely believed to be inhabited by little green men, so when Orson Welles declared on the radio in 1938 that space invaders had landed, much of the nation went into a panic. And do not forget The Search for Bridey Murphy...
...report of the interview by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, quoted Vorontsov as saying several difficulties arose late in negotiation. He said American delegates proposed that the warheads, guidance systems and rocket motors from its cruise missiles be kept intact when the missiles were destroyed...
...Many of us in the Air Force are about six feet off the ground," said Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge. They had every right to be. For the first time in 35 months, a Titan 34D rocket blasted into space last week. The troubles of the 161-ft. Titan, the nation's most powerful unmanned space vehicle, had come to symbolize the paralyzed U.S. space program. In August 1985 a Titan exploded only a few minutes into flight. In April 1986 disaster struck again during lift-off. In the interim, the Challenger tragedy put a halt to manned space flight...
Last week's launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base ended the string of failures. The rocket carried into orbit a secret military payload that independent experts believe to be a KH-11 photo-reconnaissance satellite, enabling the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with arms agreements...
...Moscow it began with an overcast sky that brightened briefly before being darkened by thunderclouds. In the Arctic Ocean, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir was cruising toward the scientific station North Pole 27. In Central Asia scientists secretly tested the 170 million-h.p. Energia booster rocket, the world's most powerful. Through the day, photographers scoured areas once strictly off limits. Some places remained out-of-bounds: military academies were accessible; most military installations were...