Word: crew
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...Sociology concentrator and the captain of the Radcliffe crew team, Weiss has spent two summers as a coxswain for the U.S. National women's crew team...
...print organizations to begin or resume operations, and released U.S. Pilot James Denby, whose plane was shot down over Nicaragua two months ago. The Sandinistas downed another craft last weekend, this one a DC-6 contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island, in defiance of the peace pact. He claimed that the entire crew had been Nicaraguan except for one Colombian. But the Sandinistas charged that U.S. citizens had been on the plane...
Enthralled by physics, Stephen concentrated in the subject at Oxford's University College, but did not distinguish himself. He partied, served as coxswain for the second-string crew and studied only an hour or so a day. Moving on to Cambridge for graduate work in relativity, he found the going rough, partly because of some puzzling physical problems; he stumbled frequently and seemed to be getting clumsy...
...magnetic field. But, says Oberg, "there is no real experience anywhere on the effects of long-term, deep-space radiation exposure." Even so, with Romanenko's performance the Soviets bolstered their commanding lead over the U.S. in long-duration space flights. Soviet space officials have decreed that the current crew of the space station Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, will stay in orbit for a full year...
...hellish orange-and-white fireball that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean two years ago this week, killing seven crew members and shutting down the U.S. manned space program. Pressures to launch had led to what the Rogers commission later called NASA's "silent safety program," in which defects were overlooked and engineering cautions brushed aside. Yet as NASA and its many contractors now rush to correct the ! shuttle's potentially fatal weaknesses and resume launches by July, there are signs that the lesson of the Challenger tragedy has not been wholly heeded...