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...generation of reusable rocket-powered craft that would reach orbit with a single-stage engine. These two new vehicles would compete to see which would become the shuttle's successor, carrying passengers and cargo between earth and the space station. Yet another craft, a kind of space truck, would also be created to move crews and material from space stations to geosynchronous orbits (22,300 miles up) and the moon...
...Hess of the Pentagon's SDI organization: "We cannot handle this volume with shuttles and Titans and Delta rockets. Something new will have to come along." More precisely, the U.S. will have to design and build far more powerful launching vehicles: perhaps new unmanned rockets, or an upgraded "space truck" version of the shuttle, or President Reagan's "Orient Express" space plane. An SDI report to Congress says the cost could approach $60 billion just for lift, without counting a penny spent on the actual weapons...
...historical. Up close, she's an awesome sight. Her three sets of 16-in. guns, tooled more than four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor plate...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
...auto companies believe that these operations are natural extensions of their traditional car-loan business. GMAC, which has 8 million customers with car and truck loans, last week announced that it will mail letters to many of its Michigan borrowers, suggesting that they also apply for a home mortgage...