Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the squawk of voices breaks the extraterrestrial spell. As Joseph Allen, 47, and his fellow skywalker, Navy Commander Dale A. Gardner, 36, wrestle a disabled telecommunications satellite into the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery, they sound like a pair of movers trying to squeeze a 10-ft. piano through a 9-ft. door. "Joe, I assume you're comfortable there," says Gardner. "Not very," replies Allen. "Sorry to be taking so long," apologizes Gardner. "It's harder than it looks, just floating around." Back at mission control, a NASA spokesman quickly reminds reporters...
Gardner then slowed the rotation and, much as in the first retrieval, maneuvered the stray toward the arm. There, in a foot restraint, Allen waited to grab the antenna on Westar with his right hand, while his left gripped the antenna support. Gardner cut loose, thrust over to the bay, stored his pack and tethered himself to the cargo bay. Meantime, Fisher gingerly began to reel in Allen and the satellite until Gardner could reach up to remove the stinger. He could then proceed directly to the remaining berthing steps. The only newly tricky part was in keeping the second...
...ahead of schedule. It all went so well that toward the end they slowed down to relax and drink in the views. They completed the rescue in less than six hours. Said a cheery Commander Hauck: "Houston, we've got two satellites locked in the bay...
...want to look with interest and contentment into a bay for any length of time, it is better that it doesn't have a whale in it. Now, it occurred to me that the freakish landscape of Cappadocia illustrated the same truth. What you need of such a weird spectacle is one good view of it, and this I had ... The uneasy moonscape stretched away on every hand, and, below me, clinging to the roots of the fortified pinnacle of rock I stood upon, were the ruinous mud huts of the old village, their terraces heaped with melons yellow...
...years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, says, "It may be the shark-attack capital of the world...