Word: endeavour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before nasa's newest shuttle Endeavour finally lifted off last week, maintenance technicians had plenty of troubleshooting to do. The $2 billion ship arrived at the Kennedy Space Center looking pretty enough, but beneath Endeavour's sleek exterior lay more than 2,000 problems, including a defective set of main engines. And wedged among the tangle of dangling wires, hydraulic pipes and contaminated water lines was one moldy Oreo cookie...
BLASTING THROUGH A THIN LAYER OF CLOUDS INTO blue skies above, the new space shuttle Endeavour rode into space only half an hour behind schedule last week, on a mission to rescue a misplaced satellite and to give astronauts some space-walking practice. It was the first flight for the new $2 billion craft, a replacement for the Challenger, which blew up and killed its crew of seven in January...
...journeyman artist and engraver, studied briefly in Munich, showed his pictures in beer halls as well as in art galleries, and died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures...