81. China is highly secretive about its plans for space missions. 82. China is training astronauts for its first space mission sometime in the next two years, according to a report in a government-controlled newspaper. 83. Dependable systems technology is necessary to insure that the software created for space missions, defense, health care and other purposes functions properly. 84. Energy officials were considering using the reactor to supply NASA with plutonium for space missions and to produce medical isotopes to diagnose and treat cancer and other illnesses. 85. Eventually, six completed space missions. 86. Japan is only the third country after the United States and Russia to attempt an interplanetary space mission. 87. Japan is only the third nation after the United States and Russia to have attempted an interplanetary space mission. 88. On a space mission last year, John Glenn and his fellow astronauts ate irradiated food. 89. No other space missions are planned due to lack of finances, defense ministry officials said on Tuesday. 90. No U.S. space mission has ever been cut short for medical reasons, although ill and even potentially ill astronauts have delayed launches and been bumped before flight. |