Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unscheduled arrival of Skylab on earth, as well as the tenth anniversary of mankind's arrival on the moon. These twin aerospace milestones are the subject of this week's cover story, which also looks toward the uncertain but potentially dazzling future of the U.S. space program. To see further ahead, TIME commissioned Science Author and Visionary Arthur C. Clarke to supplement the story with his view of man's long-term prospects in space...
...Carter's political advisers realized that he had to patch together some kind of program quickly. The official line on the Camp David discussions was that they were being held in a relaxed atmosphere, sometimes on the deck around the swimming pool adjoining Aspen Lodge. The President went jogging Saturday morning with some of the Governors he had invited to the retreat and his guests later reported that he was in a buoyant mood. In Washington, however, some Government officials were calling the domestic summit a watershed in the Carter presidency, a last chance to reverse the widespread impression...
Originally, NASA had proposed in 1968 the $2.6 billion orbiting laboratory program. At that time extra rockets capable of keeping Skylab in space almost indefinitely were considered. The craft's ability to stay in orbit would be reinforced, if necessary, by astronauts transported up to it in a convenient space shuttle, then also on the NASA drawing boards. But under budgetary pressures both vehicles were simplified?and both developed unanticipated technical problems. So when Skylab's orbit began to slip, there was no shuttle to come to its rescue...
...entered the overheated space lab and rigged a makeshift umbrella to shade the vehicle's bald spot, then spent a harrowing four hours outside the stricken craft freeing the stuck wing. During a second manned mission, on July 28,1973, the lab's thrusters sprang leaks?and a crash program to prepare a vehicle to rescue the three astronauts was undertaken. The astronauts shut off the leaking system, and the rescue mission proved unnecessary. On the third and final mission, on Nov. 16, 1973, Astronauts William Pogue and Edward Gibson struggled for three hours outside Skylab in getting a vital...
This was in some ways the hardest-hitting part of the program because of itds topicality; Smith's direct references to the series of murders served to sharpen the focus of the other outcries make that night against violence against women. Especially poignant were her musings on the lack of opportunity most black women have to escape the atmosphere of fear--"to get away, and write...