Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need more space," Stephen P. Dyer, systems programmer at the Science Center, said. The present system is overused and insufficient to handle undergraduate usage, Laws said...
Neither Spence nor Laws would say exactly where the satellite stations might go. "Space is a problem. We don't know where to put them," Laws said. "Finding 500 square feet of space in the Houses is not a trivial matter," he added...
...prevent that, NASA engineers had devised a daring rescue. The new space shuttle, slated to make its first flight in September, would intercept Skylab, attach a small booster engine to one end, then fire it. Thus space planners could either raise Skylab.to a higher orbit or send it plunging harmlessly into an ocean. Last week, after weighing the chances of such an orbital operation, NASA conceded defeat. That means Skylab will expire in a meteorite-like death that could scatter parts of the space station on populated regions...
...Space officials cannot tell precisely when the "random reentry" (as NASA jargon has it) will occur. Best estimate: some time between mid-1979 and mid-1980. They do know that most of the space station will burn up in the atmosphere. But about one-third of the station will rain down in a shower of some 500 fragments along a track up to 6,440 km (4,000 miles) long and 160 km (100 miles) wide. Its location: somewhere in a broad, globe-girdling belt as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as the tip of South America...
...merely provocative fantasies, I admit - whimsical futurism. It could happen, or not. I am brought to the fantasy because I have been staring at the New York Times' endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Senate - an extraordinary 13-paragraph exercise that takes up almost all of Sunday's editorial space. I have been studying the editorial as if it were a Polaroid snapshot, the film just exposed, still wet and murky, but with certain outlines starting to come clear...