Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Cochrane wasn't wearing a cape over his jersey. He had no red "S" sprawled across the front of his shirt...
...main engine to a slight scratch on a thruster rocket. Finally they seemed confident that only bad weather might postpone the shuttle's launch. Although launch day dawned bright and sunny, meteorologists warned that the high-altitude winds in the shuttle's flight path, normally unruly in the Cape Canaveral region during late September, had uncharacteristically died down. The problem: Discovery's computers had been programmed to maneuver the craft through strong, buffeting winds. "Imagine yourself leaning way forward into a stiff wind," explained Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle management and operations. "But suddenly and unexpectedly, the wind stops...
...endangered. Astronaut Robert Crippen, charged with making the final go or no-go decision, had no qualms about waiving the wind restriction. Less than an hour after Discovery finally lifted off, an hour and 38 minutes late, clouds moved in, and a bit later heavy rainstorms pelted the cape...
...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Discovery's astronauts delivered a poignant salute yesterday to their fallen Challenger comrades, eulogizing them as fellow sojourners and friends, and saying, "At this moment, our place in the heavens makes us feel closer to them than ever before...
...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Space shuttle Discovery carried the American flag back into space yesterday after a 32-month absence, its five astronauts riding a 700-foot tail of flame from rockets meticulously redesigned after the Challenger disaster...