Word: space
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North House Master J. Woodland Hastings said hewas ambivalent about the project's cancellation"Many contemporary artists on the cutting edgemeet resistance, and it's difficult to distinguishbetween this and concern about the space beingcompromised," he said...
Besides being an accomplished scientist and administrator, Sagdeyev is the Soviet Union's chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...Communist Party politics, stifling. In 1961 he helped found Akademgorodok (Science City), an informal think tank located in the Siberian countryside, away from the intensely political atmosphere of Moscow. Sagdeyev was at first concerned about neglecting his research when he was asked to assume control of the struggling space-science program at IKI in 1973. The position offered a measure of independence (though hardly on a level enjoyed by top NASA scientists), but it was still part of the rigid Soviet scientific bureaucracy. Recalls Sagdeyev: "It meant a big change in my life-style. There was a desire...
COVER: The Soviets overtake the U. S. as the No. 1 nation in space...
Moscow now has the world' s most powerful rocket booster, unmatched expertise in manned spaceflight, a world- class planetary exploration program and an unwavering commitment to become the dominant presence in space. Experts in the West think the Soviets are far ahead of the U. S. -- and may stay there into the 21st century. -- Can America come back? See SPACE...