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...This thing" is the most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Do-Or-Die Mission | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Some pieces especially stand out. "November" isclassic Waits, melancholy and plaintive andbizarre all at the same time, and "Shoot the Moon"is just as good, with Waits gruffly promising thathe'll "shoot the moon right out of the sky, foryou baby."\And hearing Burroughs, seventy-nineyears old, mutter that "'t'ain't no sin to takeoff your skin and dance around in your bones" on"'T'ain't No Sin" is required listening for anyserious Burroughs fans. (Burroughs made an equallysatisfying appearance on banjoist Tony Trischka'slatest release, World Turning...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Human Oddities | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...speech, which has been presented in over 40 countries by various church representatives, Moon said that "Rev. Moon is the most persecuted religious leader in the world...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: `Moonies' Cult Visits Cambridge | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...Moon now stand on a worldwide level as the first True Parents... they are ushering in the Completed Testament Age," Moon said...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: `Moonies' Cult Visits Cambridge | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...only one item other than a billfold. "See, this is what I took," she says, opening up a shirt box from Neiman Marcus. Inside there are miniature flags, first-day stamp covers, letters and a few items stuffed in envelopes. "These are the things that Buzz took to the moon," she explains. "Everything else we have is replaceable, but not these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Like the Wind | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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