Word: delta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change, the mood at the Kennedy Space Center was upbeat last Friday as a ; Delta rocket carrying a secret military payload for the Star Wars space defense program lifted off flawlessly at 11:08 a.m. "We feel we are back in the groove," said NASA's Delta project manager William Russell. The flight was Delta's first since a rocket was destroyed after lift-off in May. And it was only the second successful major U.S. launch of any kind in six attempts, starting with January's space shuttle Challenger disaster...
...share of the estimated $1 billion annual launching market that the European Space Agency has virtually had to itself since January's shuttle tragedy. But others are eyeing the pie. Among them: General Dynamics, which has built Atlas-class rockets, and McDonnell Douglas, the maker of Delta boosters...
Together with 45 other Soviets and 125 Americans, Grechko was spending a summer week "steamboatin' " down the Mississippi River, from St. Paul to St. Louis, on the legendary Delta Queen. Stopping daily at towns along the way, the first ever "Mississippi Peace Cruise" brought the "evil empire" to America's heartland, and the heartland, curious and honored but not intimidated, opened its arms in welcome...
...Delta Queen came to Red Wing the first night out from St. Paul; no stop was scheduled, but a hopeful crowd, some of them sporting handmade posters, had gathered at a nearby lock. When Grechko saw them, he couldn't resist their enthusiasm. As the paddle-wheel steamboat rested in the lock, he climbed across from a starboard deck onto the concrete bank and began shaking hands, accepting pats on the back and handing out small mementos from the Soviet Union, mostly pins and buttons that called for universal peace and an end to the arms race, mostly in Russian...
...moisture of their perspiration. Tempers have also been blazing: Charlotte, N.C., police report that there were 360 incidents in June of spouses wielding kitchen weapons and fists at one another. And there is no change on the hazy horizon; the high-pressure wall of air centered above the Mississippi delta that has kept temperatures soaring shows no sign of moving on. At week's end some relief was on the way. President Reagan ordered two Air Force cargo jets to ferry hay from Illinois to starving cattle in South Carolina...