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NASA's shuttle Atlantis was scheduled for a mission to the International Space Station on Dec. 9, but a faulty fuel gauge caused the launch to be postponed until January at the earliest. If the gauge had been fixed quickly, could the delay have been avoided? No. Blame orbital mechanics...
PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2˝ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...
...WAIT UNTIL JANUARY? The shuttle impedes the station's movement when attached. At certain points in the year, this makes it difficult to capture solar energy or maintain temperature, factors NASA considers for launch timing...
...take it home for winter break, but now I can’t,” said Zachary A. Katz ’10, who lives in East Meadow, New York. “It’s an inconvenience because the vamoose bus went straight to Penn Station and I could get straight on the Long Island Rail Road.” The missing license is the latest in a series of upsets that the Vamoose company has faced in its campaign to run the Harvard Square to New York line. After being denied permission to operate in Boston...
...April 2002, encouraging the public to take to the streets and falsely suggesting that Chavez’s forces had been firing on unarmed protestors. When the Venezuelan people flooded the streets demanding Chavez’s return two days after he had been ousted from power, the station broadcast cartoons and old Hollywood movies in place of news reports. Second, after making clear our distance from these misguided politics, progressives must critically engage the actual dynamics of the Bolivarian revolution. Primarily, as journalist-cum-sociologist Greg Wilpert convincingly argues, this requires that we come to terms with the curious...