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...tries to chart China's future. Chinese have synthesized insulin, flung satellites into space, made nuclear bombs ? yet do not supply their villages with adequate common matches. Baoshan, the huge new steel complex near Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art operation. But steel production requires heavy cargo of both coking coal and ore, and the river creek on which the Baoshan plant was built could not take heavy-laden ships. So iron ore must be shipped to the Philippines and then transshipped in small boats to Baoshan...
...festival site was roomy, if unorthodox. But for many in the milling crowd of 5,000, the cavernous airplane hangar in Miami's Tamiami Park had a symbolic significance. In the spring of 1980, the structure served as one of the first receiving centers for the tattered cargo of the "freedom flotilla," the 125,000 Marielito refugees named after the Cuban port of Mariel from which they fled to the U.S. Last month the immigrants organized a daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer...
...aboard the shuttle when the five-man crew completed its orbital agenda. A key test of the Challenger's 50-ft. mechanical arm went off smoothly. Guided by Bluford and Mission Specialist Dale Gardner, the arm slowly grasped an 8,500-lb. dumbbell in the middle of the cargo bay, hauled it out into space and brought it back inside. The test was a preparation for STS-13, scheduled for next April, when NASA hopes the arm will pluck a malfunctioning 5,100-lb. satellite from space and bring it aboard the shuttle for repairs. Throughout the flight, Bluford...
...which briefly startled the crew. Because a fire or any outpouring of gas in Challenger's confined atmosphere would have lethal potential, the shuttle has seven fire extinguishers primed for instant use. However, a quick check showed that the alarm was set off by a sensor in the cargo area's aft bay No. 1 that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal, and so, with the approval of flight engineers, the crew turned...
...voyage across the Pacific took six weeks, and no wonder. The ocean-going tug Arctic Shiko had quite a cargo to haul: a complete seawater treatment plant, longer than two football fields, 110 ft. high and weighing in at 26,000 tons. Built in South Korea and designed by Bechtel for Arco Alaska at a cost of $350 million, the STP has been floated into position in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Toward the end of the 4,000-mile journey, summer ice and high winds in the Bering Sea became a problem, but the huge plant managed to beat...