Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early Thursday. "The only glitch was that it was a few minutes late while some extra safety checking was done. NASA took particular care and scrutiny with precautions on this launch because it fell 10 years to the month after the Challenger disaster, which killed all seven of its crew members. But they really couldn't have asked for better conditions. It was clear and cool, 44 degrees, but not as cold as the Challenger launch, which had a temperature of about 36 degrees. The purpose of the mission is to provide practice for using tools in space, but also...
According to transcripts obtained from the plane's two "black box" recording devices, the crew in the plane's cockpit was engaged in a discussion of a "non-pertinent" nature. News reports said the crew were discussing labor issues rather than engaging in pre-landing procedures...
According to the report, the flight crew mistakenly set the plane's automatic pilot for a navigational aid outside the city, causing the plane to turn off course...
After a brief discussion of how to return to the flight path, the crew steered the plane toward a mountain and attempted to fly over it, but failed to clear by 200 feet...
Having organized an insurrectionist crew in the House, Gingrich seized the initiative from a temporarily passive President and steered the country onto a heading that the Speaker accurately proclaimed to be revolutionary. His venture is in a stormy mid-passage now. It may ultimately be forced back, or even sunk. Yet Gingrich did the work--crude, forceful, effective--that compelled the voyage in the first place. It is for that reason he is Time's Man of the Year...