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Monday, December 31, 1984

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VE EDITOR THE DECEMBER Shuttles Flew Records Courses Plotted News Services pace travel continued to capture the world's tion in 1984 as American space shuttle crews performed a variety of Soviet cosmonauts set records and other countries pushed ahead with fledgling programs It was also the year dent Reagan set a new space goal for the United to develop and construct a manent manned space tion in the next decade In August the president told a teacher's group that the first in space would be a school probably in early 1986 And the National Aero- nautics and Space that S...

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