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...first American woman in space, was some damage to the shuttle's brakes and protective tiles. Yet Challenger's flight ended on a slightly disappointing note. Instead of landing on the new three-mile-long shuttle runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the spacecraft was diverted at the last minute to California's sprawling Edwards Air Force Base. As Mission Control put it to the Challenger crew, there was some very cold beer waiting for them, except "it's 3,000 miles away...
...pioneering U.S. woman space traveler, on her return. But he scrubbed his visit after indications grew that foul weather might interfere with the Florida landing; the White House explained that Reagan did not want his presence to be a factor in deciding when and where to bring down the spacecraft...
Anticipating Pioneer's wanderings into the cosmos, where it might be intercepted by intelligent beings, Sagan and a Cornell colleague, Frank Drake, along with Sagan's former wife Linda, an artist, created a gold-anodized aluminum plaque that was affixed to the spacecraft's side. The plaque shows a nude male and female, a representation of the solar system, plus other scientific clues that might help inhabitants of other worlds trace Pioneer's origins...
...discovery that the boundary of the sun's atmosphere, or heliosphere, the bubble of particles blown into space by the solar wind, is much farther out than supposed. Researchers had expected the region to end near Jupiter's orbit. But even now the spacecraft's instruments show no decline in the heliosphere's strength, only what seems to be a swelling and contraction connected with cycles of solar activity...
...nuclear-powered spacecraft continues its probings of deep space, its findings will be awaited "with intense excitement," says the University of Iowa's James Van Allen, who utilized Explorer I a generation ago to discover the earth's radiation belts. Says Van Allen: "No one dreamed we would still be hearing from Pioneer today." The scientists, however, will have to be patient. At its present distance, radio messages take 4 hr. 20 min. to reach the earth from Pioneer. And the length of time is steadily increasing...