Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shoemaker will finally get his dearest wish. When NASA's Lunar Prospector blasted off toward the moon last week, it carried a small capsule containing an ounce of Gene Shoemaker's ashes. On brass foil surrounding the capsule was an image of Arizona's Meteor Crater, where Shoemaker trained NASA's astronauts. After reaching the moon this week, the spacecraft will ease into a 63-mile-high orbit, peer down and begin a search for minerals, gases and any evidence of water. Then, some 18 months from now, Prospector will crash onto the lunar surface, carrying Gene Shoemaker's ashes...
...Force brass, eager to please the boss, bought the 1,750-lb. English-manufactured Slingsby T-3 and made it mandatory for all cadets to fly the craft if they want to earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage...
Upon entering the office of Professor of Biology Michael J. Donoghue, the visitor might notice a small, brass plaque on his door. The plaque reads "Michael Mad Dog Donoghue...
...assigned to class (Romeo and Juliet) with allusions to other works by the Bard. Strong was a senior and Carneal a freshman, and, says Strong, "We're in distinctly different social classes," with Carneal the son of a prominent lawyer. But they were friends, and both played in the brass section of the band. "He just interested me," Strong told TIME. "He seemed to be real...
...tips. "I'd have more chance of being elected Governor than I would trying to get money out of the department for informants," says Blondie. "The bosses' view is that we had the best jobs. We wore soft clothes, worked our own hours and made tons of overtime. The brass viewed paying informants out of our own pocket as just a cost of doing business...