Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle's second day aloft, while orbiting 185 miles above the Pacific, the crew set Insat-1B spinning outside the open doors of the shuttle's payload bay. The satellite spun near by in space for 45 minutes, then, reflecting the sun's rays like a giant shiny ice cube, it flawlessly began its week-long climb to an altitude of 22,300 miles, propelled by its own rocket boosters. "The deployment was on time, and the satellite looks good," reported Mission Specialist Guion S. Bluford Jr., an aerospace engineer and veteran Air Force pilot...
...ST58 who will launch the satellite from the shuttle's payload bay is Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion (Guy) S. Bluford Jr., 40, America's first black astronaut, though not the first black in space. That distinction belongs to Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez of Cuba, who was sent aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William E. Thornton...
...American woman in space, gets only the barest mention in the press handout for the upcoming flight of the Challenger, scheduled for Saturday morning, June 18. NASA'S flacks spend most of their energy detailing much more mundane aspects of the seventh shuttle mission: that it will carry aloft two more communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian; that the five-man (oops!) -member crew will be the largest yet launched in any space vehicle; and that the 100-ton craft will glide to a landing for the first time on a new three-mile strip at Florida...
...strand pearl necklace was among friends. "We regard you," gushed the local chairman, "as the finest leader this country has had since the days of Winston Churchill." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, savored the roar of approval, whipped out a copy of the Labor Party manifesto and held it aloft. "A member of Labor's shadow cabinet described this as the 'longest suicide note ever penned,' " she declared gleefully. "If the British people were to put their signature to it, it would be a suicide note for Britain too. Labor hopes you won't read...
...Harold Washington's boisterous victory rally in Chicago's Donnelley Hall last month, his supporters held aloft a banner that read RIZZO IS NEXT. The allusion was to Philadelphia's hard-nosed former mayor Frank Rizzo, who has fought an uphill battle against his black opponent, W. Wilson Goode, the city's former managing director, for the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination on May 17. Thus far, however, traditionally Democratic Philadelphia has successfully ducked the racial mudslinging that made Chicago's mayoral election one of the bitterest in American history. Both Rizzo and Goode...