Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succeeded in launching an earth satellite. The trail-blazing cargo, formally known as SBS-3, was the third in a series of commercial communications satellites owned by Satellite Business Systems, a partnership of IBM, Comsat General and Aetna Life & Casualty. It was one of two look-alike satellites carried aloft by Columbia on its fifth voyage. The other, called Anik C-3 and owned by Telesat Canada, which runs that country's satellite communications, was launched with equal ease a day later. Both satellites are among the most advanced examples of electronic wizardry in orbit. About 21 ft. long...
...feat for someone from Los Angeles.) Bradbury, who set out by train and limousine, was returning home from Orlando, Fla., where he had taken part in the opening ceremonies of Disney's new Epcot Center. After over 40 years of earth-bound travel, how did he like it aloft? "The stewardesses petted and smoothed my feathers," he said happily. Will he go up again? "No, not often...
...Organization, could be heard clearly on Jordanian television last week as King Hussein benignly received the embraces, one after another, of 265 P.L.O. guerrillas who had just arrived in his country after a 20-hour trip from Beirut via Cyprus. The guerrillas responded eagerly to their warm welcome, bearing aloft a portrait of Hussein that they had found in one of the rooms at the Mafraq airbase where the homecoming took place. "Long live King Hussein!" the guerrillas cheered resoundingly...
...shuttle must prove it can do the job it was built for: hoisting. satellites into orbit. The critical test will come during Columbia's next flight, scheduled for Nov. 11, when it will carry aloft two communications satellites-one American, the other Canadian. And even if Columbia passes this milestone, other questions will persist. NASA's initial justification for building a vehicle that wedded the technology of planes and rockets was to reduce the cost of space travel. However, the calculations depended on projections of extremely heavy traffic into space, with flights as frequent as every two weeks...
...they were criticized by every Arab state for their failure to fight wholeheartedly for the Palestinians and their willingness to make a separate ceasefire. The situation in Syria has been complicated by the arrival in Damascus last week of some 2,000 Iranian volunteers, wearing green headbands and holding aloft pictures of Ayatullah Khomeini. Their mission: to help Syria wage war on Israel?despite the arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last...