Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record of 84 hours aloft and a 1962 mark of 11,337 miles in a closed circuit...
...winning goal. Nobody seemed happier about Diego's underemployment than Diego himself. "Today we showed that Argentina is much more than Maradona," he burbled after the 3-2 victory, when as captain he had made the obligatory triumphant circuit of the stadium on the shoulders of his admirers, bearing aloft the 11-lb. gold trophy. "Maradona is only part of the team...
Challenger had blasted off even though the temperature at the cape was 38 degrees . During the night, a subfreezing cold had chilled the shuttle, and surface winds of 30 m.p.h.. had aggravated the problem. Chunks of ice floated in water tanks laced with antifreeze. Once aloft on its tragic 73-sec. flight, Challenger was assailed by 75-m.p.h. gales, producing, even before the explosion, what one NASA engineer called "an extremely rough ride, maybe the roughest yet." At sea, ships assigned to recover the $25 million boosters were heading for safe harbors as waves broke over their gunwales...
Navy brass point out that the $75 billion array of carrier groups looked pretty intimidating to Gaddafi, who dared not send his 535-plane air force aloft to challenge the Sixth Fleet. But questions about both the cost and effectiveness of the operation are sure to be part of the continuing debate over how to allocate military resources and structure the Pentagon bureaucracy for the defense the U.S. will need in the decade to come...
Until January's accident, the space shuttle had been scheduled to carry aloft seven satellites this year and 19 in 1987. That total included two commercial satellites in 1986 and six next year, at a launching fee of up to $40 million each. Since NASA has scrapped that plan, several customers have started shopping around. Western Union was forced to postpone the June trip of its Westar VI, a 24-channel communications satellite designed to replace an older, twelve-channel model. GTE Spacenet had planned to send up its G-Star III, which would relay telephone and television signals...