Word: spacelab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germans had special reason to celebrate. They are the prime builders of Europe's main contribution to the shuttle program: the Spacelab, a self-contained scientific compartment for up to four experimenters scheduled to be car ried aloft in 1983. Said one official: "Success for America means a breakthrough for us too and signals the entry of Western Europe into aerospace." The French, who are building a conventional rocket launcher called Ariane, which could draw away some of the shuttle's business, were no less effusive. Said Le Figaro: "After their political and military failures of recent...
...under construction in Europe and scheduled to for its first voyage in 1983, the Spacelab will observe the extremely high-energy wavelength and particle radiations in space and investigate whether the energy of the sun is subject to short or long-term variations...
...Spacelab will also carry a ten-ton telescope that will allow scientists to view space 100 times more accurately than any earth telescope, and look for infrared and ultraviolet ends of the visible spectrum obscured by the atmosphere 3 earth...
Citing the $603.5 million budget cuts of NASA by the Reagan administration and the planned 23 per cent reduction in the funds of the agency's science projects, Moore-ede said. "There is not enough general awareness of the research potential provided by Spacelab and the benefits from this research...
...laboratory or experiment," Moore-ede added. Spacelab will probably bring significant and unforseen scientific discoveries outside of the aims and focus of the experiments...