Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia looked gorgeous, nothing less, to its creators who watched?along with the first scheduled pilots, John Young and Robert Crippen?as it lumbered onto its pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral one chilly day last week. Said NASA Director Robert Frosch: "We are now at the threshold of a new capability to investigate the universe...
Crippen likes to quote Young's remark, "If you're not nervous, you don't understand what's happening." But both men are looking forward eagerly to the moment when they will "thread the needle" with Columbia as they blast off from Cape Canaveral and then come plummeting down for their one and only pass at the runway 54 hours later. Says Young: "Unbelievable...
...that description conjures up nervous waits in a bland, Muzak-filled office and a white-coated figure poking fingers, drills or needles into the patient's mouth, with possibly a palliative lollipop or pat on the back afterward, forget it. Dr. Schmidt practices his profession in a red cape and bright blue tights. He calls himself "Plaque Invader." The cape outfit is only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July 4 as Uncle Sam. Schmidt drives to and from work in a vehicle that...
Though Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 1977, two weeks after an identical twin, Voyager 2, it followed a less curved trajectory and reached Saturn nine months ahead of the other ship. Voyager 2 is not scheduled to pass Saturn until next August. Because it is taking such a different trajectory, Voyager 2 will be able to study some of the moons that had to be bypassed during last week's encounter. It will also be able to sail on to Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Thus, if the spacecraft's instruments...
...years and was invited to play virtually all the world's great church organs, but he was best known for his more than 30 recordings and his freewheeling concert appearances, at which he favored iridescent jack ets, rhinestone-studded shoes and a full-length, crimson-lined cape. After he began wooing a new generation of listeners in the 1970s by touring the country with a rock-style light show and a 2,700-watt electronic amplification system, he told an interviewer: "My more conservative colleagues regard me as an infidel. They say I'm a showman...