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Nasa plans hefty Shuttle schedule
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 ...TON DC.
Do you have a good idea for
communicating the experi
ence of a Space Shuttle ride to
others? If so, now is the time
to start working on your
proposal, reports David
Velupillai, because Nasa
expects to announce an
opportunity in late spring or
early summer.
You might be a teacher
wanting to produce a space-
based curriculum, an author
keen to write a book, or an
artist looking...
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 ...Design life 1-5 years
Remarks The telescope will be sensitive
to X-rays of from 6 to 120 angstroms
wavelength. Rosat forms the basis of
Dornier's Robus proposed retrievable
satellite base.
SMM
Nasa's Solar Maximum Mission (SMM,
or Solar Max) was launched to study solar
flares at the peak of the Sun's 11-year
sunspot cycle. The satellite was disabled
in late 1980 by blown fuses in the at...
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 ...pace Station
Nasa's greatest challenge
It is February 1995, and after 14 Shuttle assembly flights begun in 1993, construction of a fully operational
International Space Station in
463km-high orbit is complete, ...
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 ...huttle's tough target
A year after the Roger's Com
mission reported its findings on
the Challenger disaster, Tim
Furniss reviews progress
made by Nasa in implementing
the recommendations.
Reporting to President Reagan on progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Rogers
Commission, Nasa administrator James
Fletcher made a comm...
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 ...72 FLIGHT International, 17 February 1979
Shuttle first in Nasa budget BVDAV.D BAKER
THOUGH the funds for continued Shuttle development and Orbiter production are adequate, Nasa's Fiscal
Year 1980 budget is below the level
requested. Unlike British Governm...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Shuttle accident "inevitable", report suggests
WASHINGTON D.C.
Almost as soon as the US
Presidential Commission's
report on the January 28
Shuttle accident was
published, Nasa came under
fire for being overambitious in
its plan to have Shuttle flying
again by July 1987.
The criticism came from
astronaut Neil Armstrong,
vice-chairman of the
13-member investigatin...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Science threatened by Orbiter funding
WASHINGTON D.C.
Although Nasa will get its
replacement Shuttle Orbiter,
the manner in which Chal
lenger's successor will be
funded has not been resolved
satisfactorily. Both planned
and projected science
missions look ...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Can the safety of
the Space Shuttle
fleet be maintained
by privatising the
programme?
keeping? Columbia is in safe hands after a landing
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
NASA'S CHOICE of the Rockwell/Lock heed Martin joint venture United Space Alliance to operate the Space Shuttle pri vately may be logical, but to many
observers concerned about safety, the privatisa ...
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 ...LIGHT International, 24 May 1973 781
propulsion t
By KEN FULTON
Nasa's propulsion activities
M ORE THAN two-thirds of the $3,000 million expenditure planned by America's National Aeronautics and
Space Administration in Fiscal 1973
will be devoted to space rathe...
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 ...ypersonic propulsion
The US military's growing need to reach out and strike back quickly could boost NASA efforts to develop new high-Mach propul sion systems. Potential applica
tions include long-range strike aircraft,
hypersonic weapons, high-speed trans
ports and reusable launch vehicles (RLVs)...
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 ...esearc
APPLYING SCIENCE
NASA efforts to promote unmanned air vehicles
as science research platforms could help remove
the remaining barriers to their commercial use
GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
NASA hopes that coffee b...
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 ...OLUMBIA INVESTIGATION
REPORT GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
NASA compromised safety: CAB
Shuttle probe cites foam and "broken safety culture" and urges recertification if vehicle is to operate after 2010
There were two causes of the Space
Shuttle Columbia a...
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 ...PACEFUOHT
it markets flights to the Mir 1 space station at
$17 million a visit.
NASA is applying pressure now, aware that,
on 16 June, Yeltsin goes to the polls. If he is oust
ed, US/Russian manned-space co-operation
could be affected permanently. An exasperated
NASA — which ...
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 ... than in the
communications-satellite industry.
The company, however, is facing an uphill
struggle in persuading customers to take advan
tage of laboratory space and the company still
depends on NASA for its business. It has signed
a second contract with die US space agency for
the use of its Spacehab mid-deck augmentation
module on four Shuttle Mir Missions (SMM) in
1996-7. The Spacehab ...
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 ...R SAFETY
reference systems to generate head-up display
(HUD) guidance symbology. The NASA 757
was equipped with a Flight Dynamics HUD for
the Atlanta demonstration. On approach, the
HUD presents a "virtual" runway made up of
edge cones and shows the exit selected on the
LVLASO pi...
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 ...AUZrLiX.
*£££ Zvezda is cleared for launch
GENERAL DYNAMICS has been named prime contractor
for SeismicStar, a programme to
transmit data directly from seis
mic-exploration vessels via NASAs
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
System (TDRSS) network.
SeismicStar is being developed
by SpaceData International, which
has an agreement with NASA to
provide commercial access to the
n...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Nasa looks
at long-
term goals
WASHINGTON D.C. ~
A special task force led by
astronaut Sally Ride, assis
tant to Nasa administrator Dr
James Fletcher, is reviewing
the options for a logical lon...
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 ...TON D.C.
President Reagan is expected
to announce a US commit
ment to a Space Station soon,
possibly during the first
Spacelab mission. This is cur
rently scheduled to lift-off on
October 30.
Nasa has advocated a Space
Station for some time, as a
major project to follow Space
Shuttle. America now needs
the political will to embark on
such a venture, and it is this
which President Rea...
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