FAREWELL to the Swift gamma–ray observing satellite, target of a pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at grappling and orbit–raising which could have extended its lifespan for a decade or more. I suggest that NASA either had not learned, or more likely, was not able to benefit by, a lesson embodied in Carl Sagan’s Contact. (A short show, from the sea.)
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2026–11–13 Selections from BWR/6 General Description of a Boiling Water Reactor (Nuclear Energy Group, General Electric, 1980 September revision), Nuclear Power : Status and Trends 1984 (the first appearance of what has become an annual publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency), and Nuclear Power : Status and Trends 1985 and 1986.
