October 25, 1993

October 25, 1993

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COVER STORY

ROLLS-ROYCE OFFERS GROWTH TRENT 800

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN9 min

HEADLINE NEWS

INTERNATIONAL MARS EXPLORATION PRESSED

By CRAIG COVAULT5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

COLUMBIA CREW STUDIES EFFECTS OF 0g

By JAMES T. MCKENNA4 min

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ROLLS-ROYCE OFFERS GROWTH TRENT 800

The company is working on a 90,000-lb.-thrust version of the basic Trent 800, which began tests this month

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN9 min

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INTERNATIONAL MARS EXPLORATION PRESSED

GRAZ, AUSTRIA The international effort to explore Mars, already handicapped by the loss of the U. S. Mars Observer, is facing another major setback with the likely delay of the Russian/French Mars 94 project. But the loss of both the Observer spacecraft and the Mars 94 opportunity is galvanizing the U. S., Russia, France, Japan, Italy and the European Space Agency into joint action for a major new coordinated mission to Mars in the late 1990s.

By CRAIG COVAULT5 min

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COLUMBIA CREW STUDIES EFFECTS OF 0g

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Columbia and its seven-member crew lifted off after two hardware-related delays on a record 14-day mission to explore the human cardiovascular, nervous and metabolic systems, and their interaction with gravity. NASA's oldest orbiter lifted off of Pad 39B here 10 sec. after its launch window opened at 10:53 a.m. EDT Oct. 18 and made a near-perfect ascent to its initial orbit of 147 × 42 naut. mi.

By JAMES T. MCKENNA4 min

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ASPIN SEEKS RELEASE OF DELAYED B-2 FUNDS

WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Les Aspin has asked Congress to release $2.2 billion in withheld production funds for the B-2 bomber, saying the Air Force has met all outstanding funding "fences" erected by lawmakers. Congress withheld the funds until the Pentagon could certify 28 conditions had been met.
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RUSSIANS PRESENT STATION PRICE LIST

WASHINGTON Russia could provide about $2.5 billion worth of services and hardware to the international space station and save the U. S. an estimated $7 billion in expenditures on the program. These findings were included in the report of a high-level Russian working group.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ4 min

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AEROJET IMPORTS TRUD NK-33 ROCKET ENGINE

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM3 min

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R&D SHORTFALL FORCES COMANCHE CHANGES

Some test and evaluation would be delayed until EMD, which would start no later than 1997, earlier than previously planned

By JOHN D. MORROCCO3 min

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JAST FUNDING FACES SKEPTICISM

By JOHN D. MORROCCO3 min

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ARROW WARHEAD FAILS TO DETONATE

By DAVID HUGHES3 min

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HUBBLE CAMERA CLEARED FOR LAUNCH

By JAMES T. MCKENNA3 min

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