Soviet Space Science
MAY 01, 1988
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.
DOI: 10.1063/1.881162
The physicist Lev Artsimovich once defined science as the way scientists satisfy their curiosity at the expense of the nation. Space studies are in no way the cheapest source of satisfaction, so making decisions about the main trends of space science and about the priorities of these studies is a heavy responsibility.
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Roald Z. Sagdeev, Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Soviet Academy of Science, Moscow.
© 1988 American Institute of Physics
