Soviet space programme: Not without hitches

Portable electronic medical records are closer to reality, but not without hitches.

Although banking, insurance, and real estate have eagerly embraced electronic record keeping, most hospitals and physician practices have by and large clung to paper patient records. A recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics indicated that only onefourth of office-based physicians currently have an electronic medical record-keeping...

Soviet Space Stations: Achievements, Trends, and Outlook

It is a widely held belief that the Soviet space program deliberately follows the paths described in the early years of the century by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. 1 Be that as it may, it is certainly possible to find close parallels between Tsiolkovsky’s writing and the course of events, but more likely these parallels result because modern engineers have arrived at similar solutions to the same pr...

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SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space

Foreword As the other major spacefaring nation, the Soviet Union is a subject of interest to the American people and Congress in their deliberations concerning the future of U.S. space activities. In the course of an assessment of Civilian Space Stations, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has undertaken a study of the presence of Soviets in space and their Salyut space stations, in orde...

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