Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the obvious devastation of the explosion, searchers began finding surprisingly large parts of the wreckage, the biggest being a 25-ft.- long section of the spacecraft's fuselage. Parts of the shuttle's wings, cabin and cargo-bay door were tentatively identified. Sonar detected a large metal object 140 ft. below the surface, and deep-diving submersibles went down to inspect it. There was speculation that the object might be Challenger's main cabin, although a more likely possibility was that it was one of Challenger's three main engines, which could have fallen in a cluster. But Coast...
Monday looked much better. For the second time, the crew members settled into their couches on the orbiter's two decks, just ahead of Challenger's cargo bay. Commander Dick Scobee and Pilot Michael Smith were strapped into the flight deck; behind them were Judith Resnik, an electrical engineer, and Ronald McNair, a physicist. On the middeck below were Ellison Onizuka, an aerospace engineer; Gregory Jarvis, an electrical engineer; and McAuliffe. Lying on their backs, they could see a bright blue sky ahead of them. The countdown reached T (for takeoff) minus nine minutes--and stayed there for four hours...
Nine Democratic hopefuls participated, including acknowledged frontrunner Joseph P. Kennedy II, and, in the order they spoke, State Representatives William Galvin (D-Brighton), Thomas Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas Gallagher (D-Allston); Bachrach; James Roosevelt; James Spiegel; Carla Johnston; and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King. The Republicans taking part were Clark Abt and Mildred Fay Jefferson, a new entrant in the race...
...rent." Eventually, he settled for sovereignty over both bases plus $900 million in assistance over five years. One reason that the U.S. was willing to placate Marcos was that the Soviet Union has since 1979 slowly established a major naval complex at the fomer U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, about 750 miles west of the Philippines. The deep natural harbor at Subic Bay, 50 miles northwest of Manila on the South China Sea, is the primary support and logistics base for the U.S. Seventh Fleet's 80 ships and 550 aircraft. Four floating dry docks...
...landing strip that can handle any U.S. Air Force plane. It is also a vital logistics base, storing 200,000 sq. ft. of ammunition and 1 million sq. ft. of war materiel, from spare parts to blankets. Nuclear weapons are believed to be stored at both Clark and Subic Bay...