Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they beamed down spectacular views of the mottled blue and white Earth miles below, the Discovery astronauts spoke about the Challenger--America's last manned space venture--which exploded on lift-off 32 months ago tragically killing school teacher Christa McAuliffe and six others...
...that saw excellence both extended and ended. The world's best woman athlete, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee, piled up 7,291 points in the heptathlon to break her own world record and win Olympic gold. Ben Johnson of Canada once again proved that he is the fastest man on earth by setting a new world record of 9.79 in the 100 meters. Florence Griffith Joyner won going away in the women's 100 meters. But Edwin Moses, heavily favored in the 400-meter hurdles, ran a poor third and lost his grip on a sport that he has dominated...
...astronauts had said all along they weretreating the mission as a test mission--a"shakedown flight," in the words of Covey--andthey quickly ran into first-flight problems. Awater evaporator that provides cooling to the shipduring the climb to space and return to Earth waspartly clogged with ice. And a device thatprovides electrial power to move an orbitalsteering engine was not working...
...Images will be 10 times sharper, allowing usto see much fainter objects," said Kirshner. Thespace telescope will not be affected by theproblems that plague earth-based telescopes, suchas blurred images and an inability to examine theultraviolet spectrum, he said...
...finally, besides being a tearjerker, Running on Empty is a teen romance film, centering on Danny's falling in love with a high school classmate, Lorna (Martha Plimpton). Plimpton is down to earth and sarcastic in her supporting role. She gets some of the movie's best lines and plays them with a kind of sassy offhandedness. She's great fun to watch, but she's out of sync with the hyper-earnestness of everyone around her, especially Phoenix...