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...external fuel tank during lift-off, striking Columbia's left wing area. Applied like shaving cream, the foam dries to the hardness of a brick, which could conceivably damage the fragile external tiles that protect the shuttle during its fiery re-entry. When it was later disclosed that the spacecraft had spent 39 days idling on the pad before launch--enduring episodes of freezing rain that could have loosened the foam further--the case seemed closed...
Life on Mars - it is an earthling's fantasy as old as Eldorado or the Holy Grail. And yet mankind may be on the brink of actually proving whether there is, or ever has been, life on the Red Planet. This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space...
...million was the construction cost of nasa's contour spacecraft, believed to have broken apart on its way to study two passing comets...
...first saw the earth--the whole earth--from the shuttle Challenger in 1984. The view takes your breath away and fills you with childlike wonder. That's why every shuttle crew has to clean noseprints off their spacecraft's windows several times a day. An incredibly beautiful tapestry of blue and white, tan, black and green seems to glide beneath you at an elegant, stately pace. But you're actually going so fast that the entire map of the world spins before your eyes with each 90-minute orbit. After just one or two laps, you feel, maybe...
NASA hopes, however, to launch within the next 20 years two new spacecraft that will circle our sun in unusual Earth-trailing orbits, studying the gravitational wobble of stars and trying to filter out some of their light. This, astronomers hope, will allow the hidden planets to pop into view. When the ships go online, 55 Cancri will be one of the first stars to receive a close look--a prospect that last week became more tantalizing than ever...