Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force Base, the shuttle will be placed atop a modified Boeing 747 for a slow, two-day piggyback return to Cape Canaveral, where the ship will be refitted for a second launch, probably in September. The astronauts will be Joe Engle, 48, and Richard Truly, 43, this mission's back-up crew...
...netwomen took on Brown yesterday, but had more trouble locating their opponents then beating them. After visiting Cape Cod on the pretense of taking a short cut to Providence, the Crimson arrived too late to warm up, but still managed to breeze past the home team...
...Indian Ocean. Finally the astronauts fire four more bursts-this time from the two smaller orbital maneuvering rockets in Columbia's tail-boosting the ship into a nearly circular orbit 170 miles above the earth. So it should go this week, shortly after the sun rises over Cape Canaveral on Friday. If there are no new hitches Astronauts John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen, 43, will board their 75-ton orbiter Columbia, lift off from the same launch pad that sent Young and other Apollo astronauts to the moon, and spend 54½ hours racing around the earth before...
...m.p.h., and drop the landing gear. Touching down at 215 m.p.h. (a comparably sized DC-9 lands at 149 m.p.h.). Young can only pray that his tires hold as the ship rolls to a stop. Five months later, if all is A-O.K., Columbia will be back at Cape Canaveral, all fitted out and ready to take off for space again. -By Frederic Golden...
...Columbia, scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral this morning, uses five launch support systems that Halem helped Pan American World Airways, the Kennedy Space Center's contractor, develop...