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Even if technical problems ground the shuttle program again, there will still be some big news from space. In July, for example, NASA will use a Delta rocket to launch the Cosmic Background Explorer, a satellite that will study the background microwave radiation that emanates from every part of the cosmos. These microwaves are thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion...
...planned," says James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist who discovered the Van Allen radiation belts that ring the earth. "But the shuttle is not out of the woods yet. After Challenger, NASA should have made a decision to go to expendable rockets for all space science...
...space agency has learned not to raise hopes too high. Galileo, Magellan and the Hubble telescope were scheduled to be launched in 1986, which NASA had confidently proclaimed to be the Year of Space Science. That "year" ended in flames on Jan. 28 with the death of Challenger...
...SPACE: Discovery gets a big year off to a roaring start...
...flawless lift-off and successful flight pave the way for missions that include the launch of the powerful space telescope and probes to Venus and Jupiter...