Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stephen W. Murphy Torrens Park, Australia...
Wong Chong Chin Clayton, Australia...
...scheduled to carry a tracking and data relay satellite aloft for the Space Communications Co. AT&T is planning to use a 1984 flight to put one of its new Telstar 3 satellites into orbit. Foreign nations have rented a total of 18 payloads, among them: an Arab consortium, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Great Britain, Japan and Luxembourg. Other potential users of shuttle space have been slower to come forward, in part because the idea of working in orbit is still a bit too risky and futuristic for most corporate chiefs to contemplate. But there is little doubt that microgravity...
...rear door, the night watchman might never have discovered the caper and Congress might never have investigated and the White House tape system might never have been revealed and Richard Nixon might never have resigned.) Luck was the invisible hand that prompted Skylab to scatter its debris over Western Australia, not rush-hour Manhattan. Even transcendently foresighted NASA might admit that the space shuttle's flawless flight last week involved some luck. The luck of the universe (by one new theory) once banged an immense asteroid into the earth, raising a dust cloud so dense that it blocked...
Caulkins is the perennial Kiphuth Award winner as high point scorer at Nationals and practically a team in herself. Nashville is weakened this year by the departure of distance ace Michelle Ford to Australia and former world record breaststroker Graham Smith to the University of Calgary, but Nashville Coach Ron Young feels that Tracy, sister Amy, and their colleagues can still make a very respectable showing...