Subject: Space Travel's Future Is Riding on Launch Of Shuttle
Date: Published: 9/22/88 39 lines
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Crucial Flight:  
    Space Travel's Future
    Is Riding on Launch
    Of 'Discovery' Shuttle
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    But a Success Won't Resolve
    All Doubts on the Value
    Of Manned U. S. Missions
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    The Powerful Lure of Mars
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    By Bob Davis and Laurie McGinley
    Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It should be spectacular.
    Next Thursday, if plans work out, the space shuttle
 Discovery will roar from its launch pad as a million
 spectators cheer its rise into orbit.  The future of the U. S. 
 space program rides on the flight.
 
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    But the Discovery astronauts will also try to grow protein
 samples used in AIDS and cancer research that are difficult
 to make on earth, but which may blossom under near-weightless
 conditions.  "There's a whole host of biological problems that
 we're approaching with this flight," says Larry DeLucas, a
 University of Alabama molecular biologist.

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