Word: endeavour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a lot to dissuade Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Undeterred by Thursday's scuttled launch of the shuttle Endeavour because of a minor glitch, she returned at 3:35 a.m. Friday to watch the spacecraft blast off from Cape Canaveral. But her public relations presence notwithstanding, the merits of the mission still remain questionable, according to TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger...
...shuttle is bound for a Sunday rendezvous with the first component of the controversial and costly space station, which was launched earlier by the Russians. The crew of Endeavour will try to attach a connecting passageway to that first piece. "When it happens it will be an engineering, logistical and administrative achievement," says Kluger, "but successfully constructing the station will be the same kind of achievement as sitting on a flagpole or swallowing goldfish." The space station program is eating up scarce space funding, and Kluger maintains the money would be better spent on unmanned space exploration and manned scientific...
...complete it they did, in a series of televised space walks that riveted the nation's attention in December 1993. Floating on the verge of a black void, the crew of the shuttle Endeavour checked off one item after another on their impossible list until, in what Bahcall calls a display of "superhuman intelligence and ability," they were done. NASA's badly battered reputation was on the line, but within days the report came in: the images were excellent. "It was hard to believe," Bahcall remembers. "Each instrument worked exactly as it was designed...
Turning up the heat on them is probably a worthwhile endeavour, but the ultimate solution is what it has always been: throw the government out. The U.S. should tighten the noose that has been put so gently around Cedras' neck. On October 15, Cedras and his cronies should be placed on the first plane out. Their continued presence in the country will ensure that the sporadic violence and instability evident in the past weeks will continue...
Space shuttle Endeavour's launch was aborted just 1.9 sec. before liftoff. The problem was an overheated fuel pump in one of the ship's giant rocket engines. It was the fifth mission scrubbed on the launching pad in 64 flights...