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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revised maps come just in time. Warming relations between East and West have brought a flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that are closed to visitors. "Maps are really not a requirement," observes Dutch traveler Robert Harting. "The police make sure you're on the right...
...after Apollo, something went wrong with the nation's space program. Despite successes -- such as the Skylab space station and the series of unmanned missions that will reach its climax next month when Voyager 2 arrives at Neptune -- the program seemed to founder. The space shuttle, for example, was oversold as the one answer to U.S. space-transportation needs. But it is too big to put astronauts in space efficiently, too small to launch the largest payloads and too unreliable to live up to the 60-flight-per-year schedule once promised. The result, even before the Challenger accident...
...NASA is poised to make a similar mistake with its next major project, the $32 billion Freedom space station, scheduled to go into full operation in the late 1990s. Like the shuttle, it is being presented as a widely versatile project that will provide for the needs of scientists, engineers and space explorers. But without a focused, long-range program, those needs are not clear...
...crux of the problem is that the leadership Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson gave the Apollo program was not continued by their successors. That leadership gap may soon end, though. As early as this week, President George Bush is expected to announce his vision for the U.S. space program. No one knows what Bush will say, but some members of his National Space Council, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle, reportedly favor a return to the moon, followed by a manned trip to Mars...
...Eugene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972, with such a long-range goal "we can then work backward and take the steps to get us there." That would eliminate the let's-build-it-and-see-what-it's-good-for approach. Far from withering, other space initiatives would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists the information they need...