Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space program is the only Government agency working for our future; we shouldn't be so purblind to our children's needs as to cut its funds short...
...disturbs me to read that Arthur Clarke, in his comments on our future in space [July 16], still hopes we can one day control the destinies of stars. It is exactly this kind of thinking that has brought us the headaches of nuclear power and weapons capable of destroying the world many times over. The need to control seems to translate easily into the need to destroy...
Clarke was profound, as usual. As public support of science wanes-for space exploration in particular-thank God for doers and dreamers like...
...Even if space had arrived soon enough for Mr. Clarke, millions would still be leading starved and stunted lives. Hunger is the result of man's greed and injustice, not of limited resources. If we have rich and poor nations-and rich and poor within nations-what's to stop our children in space from having rich and poor planets? The worst is yet to come...
...Edward Stone, 43, is the chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director...