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May 1988

Volume 41, Issue 5

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Special Issue: International Space Science

Thomas M. Donahue
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The prospects for international cooperation are hopeful, and with the restoration of the US program a new golden age may be in store.

Soviet Space Science

Roald Z. Sagdeev
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In the next few years the USSR will send landing craft to Mars and its moon Phobos, place gamma‐ray and x‐ray observatories in Earth orbit and launch a 10‐meter radiotelescope as orbiting partner to an Earth‐based instrument for interferometry.

Western European Space Science

Ion Axford
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Successes such as Exosat and the Giotto Comet Halley flyby have led European notions to embark collectively and individually on an ambitious series of scientific space projects for the 1990s, and to back these projects with large budgets.

Space Science in the United States

Joseph K. Alexander and Frank B. McDonald
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The US space program continues to gather data from scientific spacecraft and from airborne experiments, despite the 1986 shuttle catastrophe. NASA has laid out an ambitious research program for the next five to ten years.

Policy Challenges Facing the US Space Research Program

Louis J. Lanzerotti and Jeffrey D. Rosendhal
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The realization of the US scientific community's aspirations for research in space will likely depend on how several critical policy issues are resolved.
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SSC Alternatives: Critics Collide With Dyson

Edwin L. Goldwasser, Robert Siemann, Martin Einhorn, Gordon Kane, A. Abashian, and Freeman Dyson
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SSC: Opinion Splitter

Michael J. Moravcsik
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Remembering Richard Feynman

Robert J. Barker, Foster Morrison, Alexander J. Glass, and Robert Sherman Wolff
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Challenger's British Ancestor

Gerald T. Davidson and David S. Evans
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Coinage of the (Subatomic) Realm

Kosta Tsipis
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Corrections

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Numerical Simulations Reveal Fluid Flows Near Solid Boundaries

Anil Khurana
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Very Small Tunnel Junctions Sense the Effect of Single Electrons

Barbara Goss Levi
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Temperature Fluctuation: An Oxymoron

Charles Kittel
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The Nature of Times and Asymmetries in Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science and The Physics of Time Reversal

Raymond Flood, Michael Lockwood, Paul Horwich, Robert G. Sachs, and Peter T. Landsberg, Reviewer
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Science, Computers and People (From the Tree of Mathematics)

Stanislaw Ulam and Dimitri Mihalas, Reviewer
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Principles and Models of Biological Transport

Morton H. Friedman and Stanley A. Berger, Reviewer
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Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration

Stanley Humphries and Donald E. Young, Reviewer
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Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Space Travel

Louis Friedman and Mitch Gould, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Heineman Prizes Awarded To Wess, Zumino and Lambert

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Lieb Receives Birkhoff Award

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In Brief

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John A. Thornton

Joseph Greene
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Taber de Forest

Justus H. Koch, Piet Mulders, and Lex Dieperink
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Ira M. Freeman

Richard T. Weidner
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Amazing Race: The SSC Contest Generates Disorder and Discord

Irwin Goodwin
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NSF Surveys Indicate Slower Pace for R&D, Even in Military Work

Irwin Goodwin
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American Physical Society Establishes Major Prize in Memory of Lilienfeld

William Sweet
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AIP Signs Publishing Agreement with USSR; Education Unit Moved to Washington

William Sweet
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Franz Elected Vice President of AAPT for 1988

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Oak Ridge Seeks New Director to Succeed Postma

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In Brief

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Calendar

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