Word: aloftness
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...arms raised high like a victorious boxer's. Though some editorial writers expressed discomfort about the shuttle's military role, others dismissed such fears. Commented the Chicago Tribune: "It appears we will get into a space arms race whether we like it or not . . . So fly aloft, Columbia!; deliver your laser guns and satellite busters and spy eyes. Build your battlestars. May the Force be with...
Into a clear blue hole in a partly overcast Florida sky the spacecraft rose, seemingly carried aloft by an ever lengthening orange-and-white column of fire and smoke. As it arched higher and higher, Astronaut Bob Crippen, 43, making his first flight into space, shouted exuberantly: "Man, what a feeling! What a view!" "Glad you're enjoying it," replied Mission Control in Houston...
Takeoff was from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It was perilously near the wind-chill factor of 65° F below -the point at which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest...
...hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights, and to be throttled up and down, producing more or less power as needed...
Indeed, NASA has not sent a man aloft since July 1975, when three astronauts docked with two Soviet cosmonauts. Since then, manned spaceflight has been strictly a Kremlin monopoly. The Soviets have flown 19 manned missions, staying aloft as long as 185 days and performing numerous scientific experiments...