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Indeed, NASA has not sent a man aloft since July 1975, when three astronauts docked with two Soviet cosmonauts. Since then, manned spaceflight has been strictly a Kremlin monopoly. The Soviets have flown 19 manned missions, staying aloft as long as 185 days and performing numerous scientific experiments...
Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the mysterious intruder from outer space. When the crew are not jabbering in technocratese, they are into metaphysics, one of the characteristics of the old Star Trek television show and a major reason for its cult vogue among the half-educated...
...giant multistage rocket, discarded piecemeal after a single mission, was the only way of doing the job. That the job should be done was a political decision, made by a handful of men. As William Sims Bainbridge pointed out in his 1976 book The Spaceflight Revolution; a Sociological Study, space travel is a technological mutation that should not really have arrived until the 21st century. But thanks to the ambition and genius of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, and their influence upon individuals as disparate as Kennedy and Khrushchev, the moon-like the South Pole-was reached half...
...many virtues of the space-city proposal is that it may provide the first convincing argument for extensive manned spaceflight...
Momentarily forgetting that he was no longer living in the weightless environment of spaceflight, returned Skylab 3 Astronaut Ed Gibson put his blood pressure kit out in front of him and turned away; he was startled when the kit crashed to the floor. His fellow space traveler, Gerald Carr, was so astonished by the sound of tumbling ice cubes in his refrigerator that he nearly jumped out of his seat. His wife reassured...