Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to remember that one space flight does not a space program make," Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut, said last week after the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. Exulting at the shuttle's safe landing, the nation must heed Ride's warning and ask itself what its goals in outer space...
...this point, the space shuttle is only a transportation system--some have called it a glorified trucking business--without a client. President Reagan has barred the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from the commercial satellite business, while the Defense Department has switched back to more reliable one-shot rockets. In the meantime several aeronautics firms have filled the gap, readying their own booster rockets for the satellite-launching market...
...crew pass a crucial flight test, send a vital communications satellite into perfect orbit, and help Americans overcome their post- Challenger blues. But can NASA meet its new shuttle launch schedule? And can the U. S. afford expensive shuttle missions for tasks that rockets can do more cheaply? See SPACE...
Impeccably restored, Washington' s Union Station will be a working depot again -- and perhaps the grandest public space...
...rockets roared, and the shuttle is in orbit, but the U. S. space effort is only going in circles. How to soar once more...