University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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(AP) — (Itfl) President Reagan, with his wife Nancy, gives the A-Okav sign from this hospital window in July 1985 after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lower intestine. The 74 year old President was back on the job within weeks after the operation (bottom) The space program moved ahead Spaccwalkcr James van I (often stands (all on the end of the robot arm of the space shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired syncom satellite in September of 1985. 23

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(API — (top) Ceremonies were held at various times during the year at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington to commemorate the tenth ammersary of the tail of the Saigon government in Vietnam. The Vietnam Memonal is inscribed w ith the name of more than 58.000 dead or missing soildiers from the Vietnam war. (right! President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikkail Gorbachev talk in front of a fire place at the Fleur D'Eau November 19. 1985. 22

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Pholo Credit: National Optical Astronomy Observatories Comet Hatley displays its toil in this March 7. IVXft photograph The shot was taken by Arturo Gome: with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro lotolo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.' Halley’s Comet returns The appearance of Halleys Comet in 1986 marked a once in a lifetime event for most people. Astronomer Edmund Halley predicted that the comets sighted in 1531. 1607. and 1682 were probably a single comet follow ing the ellip- tical orbit around the sun. He accurately forecasted the comet’s return in 1758 based on an interval of 75 or 76 years between sightings. Comets are believed to be linked to the origins of our solar system. Thought to lie composed mainly of frozen water, methane, amoma, and rock dust, when the comet’s orbit brings it to within approximately twice earth’s distance from the sun. the gasses and water begin to melt. Solar wind pushing against the comet causes the gasses and debris to stream out away from the sun. forming the comet tail. •fiy accepting this product of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO , the user agrees that the material may not be used to state or imply the endorsement hy NO AO. or by any NO AO employee, of any individual, philosophy, commercial product. process, or service