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NASA's new manner was in marked contrast to its bold, often arrogant and occasionally careless approach in pre-Challenger days. NASA initially promoted the shuttle as a routine "space truck," an efficient, economical transport vehicle capable of lofting any payload -- commercial, scientific or military -- into orbit. Washington succumbed to that pitch, allowing NASA to decree ! that expendable rockets such as the Delta, Atlas and Titan be phased out in favor of the shuttle...
...living like this forever." The life she refers to, like Peggy's, doesn't look all that bad. They live in a modest but comfortable one-bedroom apartment. For most of the past eight years (they've been married for only a year), Paul has driven a delivery truck for a private mail company. He has worked his way up to $8.25 an hour. Paul too lived at home until last year. Though Silva works part time at a day-care center, they are struggling with their monthly payments of $600 in rent and $169 in credit-union debt. "When...
...whose dust is under our fingernails. There is plenty of science in the space program, but the space program is not science; there is technological fallout, but it's not about technology. It's about, or should be about, consciousness and the mystery of our own destiny. The space truck to nowhere, sophisticated as it is, gets us to orbit but doesn't give us any lift...
...world mark in the 50. With the 4 X 100 medley relay, which was to be the last race of his career, still to come, he had a bronze, a silver and four golds. When he returns to California, he wants to build a camper on a used pickup truck he owns and travel around the U.S. "I've seen pools all over the world," he said, "but not much else...
Others interview, Studs Terkel elicits. Under the influence of his discerning eye and disarming tongue, truck drivers and professors, black activists and Klan members, entertainers and executives yield their secret griefs and their private truths. It is appropriate that in his film debut -- in John Sayles' Eight Men Out -- Terkel plays one of the first journalists to scent the World Series...