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Much as they have wondered for the past three months. A papacy is not a presidency, with every day's progress tallied obsessively on the march through a limited term. Yet scholars had hoped by now for a sense of how Benedict's new station would affect his theology and whether his avid pursuit of heretics as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith meant that heads would roll. Would there be more like Thomas Reese, the open-minded editor of the Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would...
Bread and salt were waiting for commander Eileen Collins and her crew when they docked the space shuttle Discovery with the International Space Station last Thursday. Station commander Sergei Krikalev had prepared the little ceremony, a Russian tradition intended to bring good luck to a visitor to your home. After the shuttle's stunning lift-off two days earlier--the first since the loss of the Columbia orbiter in 2003--it didn't seem the crew would need such happy charms. But now it appears the shuttle program as a whole--if not the astronauts themselves--may need...
...wing and doomed the ship. Only one small piece may have struck the shuttle this time, glancing off a wing with so little force it didn't register on impact sensors. But a camera mounted on the shuttle's 50-ft. arm as well as photos taken from the station have detected at least 25 dings in Discovery's insulating tiles. The most worrisome: a 1.5-in. divot near the nose, where temperatures can reach 3000?...
...danger, but in the days leading up to Discovery's planned Aug. 7 return, engineers--to say nothing of the astronauts' families--will be anxiously watching for any change in that assessment. If the shuttle were deemed unsafe to fly, the crew could take refuge in the space station, waiting out the five weeks it would take to roll out and gas up sister ship Atlantis for a rescue mission. But Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle manager, dismisses that scenario as "remote...
Should NASA even bother with these finicky ships? It costs half a billion dollars every time a shuttle flies, and one major purpose this time was to transport 15 tons of supplies to the space station and off-load 13 tons of trash. A half-billion-dollar rubbish run is not, critics say, the best way to spend scarce space resources. What's more, given the ships' limited range, they won't play a part in future missions to the moon or Mars. Indeed, as long as the shuttle and station continue to consume about 40% of NASA's budget...