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...ability to "see" frequencies of light obscured by the atmosphere, the space telescope will open whole new worlds to human experience. It may spot planets in orbit around other stars, something no current instrument has done. It should measure more accurately than ever before the distance to far-off galaxies-great islands of stars like our Milky Way. By glimpsing objects as far off as 14 billion light years, it will be capturing light that has taken 14 billion years to reach us, and thus be looking 14 billion years into the past, to the very beginnings of the universe...
...world. He must manage a sprawling 15,000-person bureaucracy. He must justify his policies to a Congress that lately has seemed ever more inclined to put strings on his freedom of action. And he must do all this in a world of instant communications that flash events in far-off nations onto American TV screens as fullblown crises, moments after they occur...
...Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering clarity. Said one scientist watching the incoming tide of images: "We have learned more about the Saturn system in the past week than in the entire span of recorded history...
...that makes them reluctant to embargo exports to Moscow because of events in far-off Afghanistan, the Europeans see that as not a betrayal of the Western alliance but simply a matter of self-interest. And if the U.S. demands tough action against Iran because of the hostages, the Europeans see nothing cynical about reminding Washington that Iranian oil helps to fuel Europe...
...dilemma of how to dispose of radioactive wastes. Though countless schemes have been proposed for sealing the deadly stuff deep within the earth, few people seem willing to live on or near such a "hot" burial ground. Now scientists are suggesting another idea: banish the nuclear-age garbage to far-off space, using NASA'S shuttle as a kind of celestial dump truck when it finally flies, probably early next year...