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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a marathon journey of twelve years and more than 4 billion miles, the remarkable Voyager 2 space probe is finally approaching its last port of call. Having made historic flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986, it is poised for an Aug. 24 rendezvous with Neptune, the most distant of the giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours...
Students say that nearly every night this summer the Gund Hall design space was being used until 3 or 4 a.m., as students worked on their weekly projects...
...ceremony commemorating the day 20 years ago when America's Apollo astronauts first set foot on the moon, President Bush last week outlined his vision of America's role in space...
...high points: a space station longer than a football field orbiting 220 miles above the earth; permanent living quarters on the near side of the moon constructed out of lunar metals and used as a base for mining oxygen-rich moon rocks; then, sometime during the 21st century, a manned mission to Mars, at least a yearlong, 35 million-mile voyage. "It is humanity's destiny to strive, to seek and to find," declared the President, "and America's destiny to lead...
...ever be as important in the history of rock as the '60s, because you don't have the cultural and sociological upheaval combined with music." Fair enough. But there's a corner of the '80s that ought to read "Property of D. Henley." And that real estate is prime space. He'll be building on it for quite a while...