Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch on the controls, a skilled pilot--who lies prone in a body harness, his or her head protruding into the craft's hemispherical glass nose--can skim just below the ocean's surface or plunge thousands of feet below...
...Peet's, "coffee roasting is a craft or a discipline rather than a science or art," Baldwin said. "It's a way of life...
...m.p.h., Gibson and shuttle pilot Charles Precourt began the delicate and risky maneuvers aimed at linking the two great ships. One careless burst of a thruster jet, and Mir's feathery solar panels could be destroyed; too forceful a bump from Atlantis, and either or both craft could be severely damaged. And if Gibson and Precourt couldn't align their 100-ton spacecraft to within 3 in. and 2 [degrees] of its assigned position before the final docking, the whole mission would have to be aborted...
Similar tests will continue on a planned series of follow-up shuttle-Mir encounters over the next two years; the flights will also give astronauts and cosmonauts more practice at docking their craft and allow them to try out space construction techniques. Then, in 1997, they are scheduled to begin putting together an all-new space station, with modules supplied and assembled by both nations. Starting in 1998, they will bring in the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan to expand the facility into a permanently staffed station that will operate through...
Hanks turns in another phenomenal performance. You can practically see the ice flowing in the test pilot veins of Lovell as he informs Mission Control of the craft's life-threatening emergency with a calm, steady, "Houston, we have a problem...