Word: spacelab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That vacant space will be aboard Spacelab 2, one of a pair of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) orbiting laboratories to be flown in NASA's new orbiting space shuttle within the next five years...
Herbert Gursky, professor of the practice of X-ray astronomy, said yesterday that a group of Harvard scientists had successfully applied for an opportunity to conduct a Spacelab experiment that NASA will fund...
Fazio said some independent groups are paying for their space on Spacelab, but he added, "We're carrying out NASA's project; others are doing their own private thing." The independent experiments are of secondary importance to NASA, he said...
...Meanwhile, the Soviets have gained an intelligence edge by again manning their Salyut space station, which passes over the U.S. twice a day. U.S. intelligence officials believe the Russians are likely to keep cosmonauts in space from now on. American astronauts, on the other hand, will not revisit the Spacelab system until the new space shuttle is launched in 1980. The Soviets have another advantage in space: the "hunter-killer" satellite that can track an orbiting vehicle, sidle up to it, and detonate like a hand grenade, blasting its victim to bits. The satellite killer's main potential target...
Harvard Observatory prepared experiments for the Apollo-Soyuz mission and is presently doing work on experiments and instrumentation proposed for NASA's future spacelab and retrievable space shuttle, and for future missions with the Soviets...