Word: spaceflights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally Ride's spaceflight has corroborated the first impression I had of the U.S. when I arrived on its shores as an immigrant from Paris: American women are out of this world...
...made to think, as HAL seemed to be doing in 2001, when it murdered the astronauts who might challenge its command of the spaceflight. That answer is simple: computers do not think, but they do simulate many of the processes ci the human brain: remembering, comparing, analyzing. And as people rely on the computer to do things that they used to do inside their heads, what happens to their heads...
...achievement overshadowed an orbital trip made three months earlier by a 37-lb., Cameroon-born colleague named Enos. One of Project Mercury's Astrochimps, Enos passed the remainder of his Government service in relative obscurity. During celebrations in Washington marking the 20th anniversary of Glenn's historic spaceflight, the Democratic Senator from Ohio was given a surprise party. Enos couldn't make it, but a standin, dressed in a monkey suit, did, saluting Glenn and Wife Anna with four stanzas of doggerel, sung to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. A sampling...
Until now, manned spaceflight has been a most extravagant-some say most wasteful-enterprise. The towering Saturn rockets made only one-way passages Even the tiny "command ships" that splashed back to earth after their journeys to the moon never flew again. The shuttle orbiter has been painstakingly designed for use again and again, perhaps as many as 100 times. Not only will that make spaceflight less costly, it should encourage a whole range of activities, from launching and retrieving new types of satellites, including power plants that can snatch energy from the sun, to setting up permanent orbital observatories...
...obvious solution is to orbit a telescope out beyond the earth's atmosphere. More than half a century ago, a German spaceflight visionary named Hermann Oberth suggested that solution. He foresaw the time when there would be rockets powerful enough to carry telescopes far out into the perfect stillness and clarity of space. In 1923 that seemed a faint dream. Now NASA is pressing ahead with just such an astronomical plan. Last month the $600 million project took a big step forward. After an intense competition, NASA chose Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as home of the new Space...