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...charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight...
...words sound as if they come from a Star Trek script. In fact, says a serious young Scottish science writer and part-time astronomer named Duncan A. Lunan, they may well be true. Writing in Spaceflight, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society, Lunan, 27, says that the words are his translation of a message that may have been relayed to earth by a robot spacecraft from a highly advanced civilization far beyond the solar system. More astonishing, Lunan adds, the automatic vehicle may have been circling the moon for thousands of years, waiting patiently for earthlings to acquire...
...scientific equipment bay. During the televised "space walk," Mattingly also exposed a small container holding some 60 million microbes-bacteria, fungi, viruses-to the direct ultraviolet rays of the sun. From the test, scientists hope to learn whether intense ultraviolet radiation, as well as other conditions encountered in spaceflight, has any genetic effects on microorganisms...
...message also makes it evident that the transmitting race has learned spaceflight. How else would it know that there is water on the third planet (as shown by the waves extending from the third dot) with aquatic life flourishing beneath it? To the left of each of the planets are dots that can easily be identified as binary numbers. By assuming that the number opposite the first planet is one, the second planet two, and so on, scientists can spot the alien binary code. Giving their imaginations free rein, they can also recognize that the three groups of dots...
...reasons are obvious to medical researchers. Scientists understood the principles of nuclear fission long before they undertook to build an atomic bomb, and grasped the physical principles of spaceflight before they attempted to send a rocket to the moon. They have no such unified store of fundamental knowledge about cancer. Says Columbia University Researcher Sol Spiegelman: "An effort to cure cancer at this time might be like trying to land a man on the moon without knowing Newton's laws of motion." A better-funded research effort could help science to understand more about the many diseases that...