Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Many memorial were dedicated to the slain leader," according to Freidel. Cape Canaveral in Florida, for example, was renamed in his honor and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library was established for his public papers and effects...
...flight last Thursday morning began just as flawlessly, lifting off about half a second early. Carrying a four-man crew, double the number on previous missions, the spacecraft remained visible for more than 3 min. as it rose on its pillars of fire into a cloudless sky over Cape Canaveral, undeterred by 90-m.p.h. winds. On the last mission, in July, Columbia's big strap-on solid-fuel booster rockets sank into the sea. This time, after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery...
...feel a lot of me flying up there with them." Hoffman said in a telephone interview the night before last Thursday's march. He added that he had had dinner with the astronauts just prior to their departure for the Cape Canaveral. Fla,. launch site...
Challenger the next ship in the fleet, is being readied at Cape Canaveral to take the next three flights, beginning with flight six. Jan. 24 James A. Abrahamson, NASA's associate administrator for space flight said the space walk scrubbed on Monday because of malfunctioning space suits may be take then "if we are certain we understand exactly what wheat wrong and have corrected...
Native of Michigan, Vietnam veteran, source of intense family pride, Maj. Brewster H. Shaw Jr. will climb aboard the jewel of America's space program sometime next September for a flight which may be the shuttle's first round-trip voyage--from Cape Canaveral, Fla. and back again. With Brewster finally having his day in orbit after five years in the space program, relatives and friends look to the shuttle with pride and excitement. The overall purpose of the ninth mission will to them to be irrelevant. However, this flight--along with the others, including this week's--will likely...