Word: endeavour
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...Hubble Rescued The Endeavour astronauts played Mr. and Ms. Goodwrench in space -- and on live television -- performing daring orbital repairs on the nearsighted Hubble Space Telescope and giving beleaguered NASA a badly needed boost...
...parlor game called Taking Stock, in which the players consider what the world's shapers have given them. In these pages is one view of life at the end of 1993: science looks ahead; art looks back. Each discipline could help the other. Those stratospheric Maytag repairmen from the Endeavour might be hired to wire the TV set of the future for 500 channels, and then maybe the gene wizards could splice some decent programming into it. Biosphere II might be a good place to lock away all those fun couples -- Burt and Loni, John and Lorena, Ted and Whoopi...
...name our shuttles for our aspirations--Atlantis, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour--the risks built into the very idea. Columbia, the fleet's pioneer, was named after an old Boston sloop that was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, carrying a cargo of otter skins to China. Any risk much repeated can become routine, and so it was for shuttle flights, except when they become tragic. That's when we are reminded that knowledge doesn't come easy and that many consequences are unintended, especially when we set off on an adventure...
...wouldn't watch MTV anymore. Plus, if attention is what they were going for, the media made the endeavour successful. Kendra Oliver Pittsburgh...
...Does the Bush administration have any right to propose an endeavour like this when they already have the nation in a near financial crisis? The deficit is at a record high, and between the cost of the Iraq war and the Republican committment to tax cuts there is now sign of improvement. Going to the Moon or Mars would be extremely costly, something that Americans would be more likely to support if we all had jobs! Jon Butler Cheshire, Mass...