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Perhaps so. But such assurances did not ease NASA'S embarrassment over the whole Skylab affair, which arose because of a scientific error about the extent of sunspot activity in the late 1970s and its effect on Skylab. By spewing out clouds of charged particles, these great solar magnetic storms help heat up and expand the earth's upper atmosphere. That creates more drag for objects in orbit, hastening their reentry. Confronted by a falling Skylab, NASA last spring began developing the $26 million booster engine. But it was clear, especially after troubles with the shuttle...
...bracing climate and stunning beauty. Most newcomers flourish; in fact, to the more inhibited East, there are signs of overflourishing. Proclaim ads for $1,500 redwood hot tubs: "There's laughter, playful splashing, quiet conversations . . . it exactly fits the spirit of our time." Other new products include portable solar water heaters for backpackers, and organic dog food...
Still more revelations about other members of the solar system will follow. Between January and July 1979, first Voyager 1 and then Voyager 2, each after traveling more than half a billion miles, will begin closeup photographic surveys of the giant planet Jupiter and its larger moons. The surveys will be made with television cameras that have as much as 40 times better resolution than the devices carried by Pioneers 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in 1973 and 1974, and returned color photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter...
When, about half an hour after launch, HEAO-2 successfully deployed its power-supplying solar panels and separated from its boosters, those listening at HSCFA burst into applause and celebrated with quiche, Chablis and pretzels, as a champagne cork popped across the room...
...early activist in the solar energy and ecology movements, Einhorn now specializes in getting hold of an unknown cause and making it popular. "When public structures become despicable, it is the duty of citizens to disrupt them," he said...