Word: apollos
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...lift-off will mark the U.S.'s first nocturnal launch of a manned spacecraft since Apollo 17 roared away in a blaze of fire and smoke shortly after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972. The glow was seen by residents of the Great Smoky Mountains, 500 miles away from Cape Canaveral. The spectacle of the ST58 launch should be even more brilliant: the shuttle's engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters will generate a temperature of 6,000° F, double that produced by the Apollo...
...inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy was already designed with women in mind. Instead of the flexible hose used by the male-only crews of the old Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, NASA provided a wide cuplike attachment that fits over the crotch. A curtain is being added to give Ride some privacy, though she did not ask for it. Notes Astronaut Mary Cleave, an environmental engineer: "Guys don't like to perform vital functions in front of everybody either...
...Margaret Thatcher could summon up the image of 1769, when the Virginia assembly, protesting the British Revenue Act, was dissolved by Governor Botetourt. In defiance, the assemblymen moved up Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street to the Raleigh Tavern, where next day they reconvened in the Apollo Room and drew up a boycott of British goods. It was a warning that the British ignored, to their regret...
...memories are layered. Francois Mitterrand could savor echoes from that same Apollo Room. It was there that France's Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the Revolutionary War, was welcomed back to the U.S. in 1824 and toasted as a soldier of liberty...
While the Tory campaign machinery hummed into action, opposition candidates took to the hustings to mount fiery attacks of their own. Before a half-filled house at Glasgow's cavernous Apollo Theater, Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, 69, lashed out at the Prime Minister's economic policies. "Thatcherism is the most appalling economic mess in generations!" he shouted. "The industrial destruction she has inflicted upon this country is even worse than Hitler's bombings." Campaigning in the economically depressed West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held...