Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45[degrees], retract the deflated bag further and then lower the petal. The signal to execute the maneuver was sent up shortly before Earth set over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command had been executed. Though a portion...
...should hold a lot of secrets. Ares Vallis was chosen as the landing site in the first place because the now dusty basin was once the largest known floodplain in the solar system. Water rushed into the valley at up to 170 m.p.h., carrying a giant spelunker's bag of rocks with it. Without venturing very far from where the lander set down, the rover could thus use its cameras and X-ray spectrometer to sample geology from all over the planet. Sojourner is scheduled to conduct these studies for up to a month, depending on how quickly the extreme...
...American World Airways, a new carrier with an old name, can compete as a low-cost, full-service discount carrier. "We'll make money with a high-quality product at an affordable cost," Shugrue says. Pan Am's promise is cheaper fares without the cramped seats and the bag of peanuts masquerading as in-flight service. Says he: "It's not rocket science...
...curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue he had had delivered...
...impossible to describe how much food Bob and Caroll Clark bring to field hockey and women's lacrosse games. They once came in a full pickup truck. The bag lunches that football reporters get in the press box--well, let's say that those writers should envy...