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Recently, Moscow had ordered a change in the way things were done in space. Newly independent Ukraine was overcharging Russia for its automated-guidance equipment, so rather than let that system steer the robot spacecraft to the red zone--the point 100 yds. from the station where the commander takes over--ground control wanted the crew to maneuver the ship all the way in using only a video camera mounted on Progress and a black-and-white television screen in the station's core module to guide...
...dead-reckoning docking would take the cooperation of all three crewmen. Tsibliyev would be at the helm in the core module, watching the monitor and operating the joysticks as the vessel approached. Lazutkin would be behind him, peering out a nearby window to call out the spacecraft's coordinates. Foale would be dispatched to the station's most distant module, the Kvant, where the unmanned ship would actually dock. Shining a laser range finder out the stern porthole, he would measure Progress's distance and report it through a headset to Tsibliyev. If everything went well, Foale would...
That is why some scientists are so distressed by President Clinton's line-item veto last week of the $30 million that Congress had allocated for the Clementine II project next year. Clementine is a spacecraft that was to be launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also...
...Galileo spacecraft, sent out by NASA on October 18, 1989 to explore Jupiter and its surrounding moons, has detected proof of organic compounds on two of Jupiter's moons--Callisto and Ganymede. It is likely to find it on Jupiter's other two large moons--Europa...
...member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Shapiro has served as a member of the Radio Science teams for the Mariner, Viking and Pioneer Venus spacecraft missions...