Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawing boards, the space station would house half a dozen people for three-to six-month shifts in roomy shirtsleeve comfort. Weighing some 180,000 Ibs., it would have to be erected in space like a giant Tinkertoy, using some of the techniques demonstrated by Astronauts Allen and Gardner last week. The Administration puts the space station's cost at $8 billion, a figure that may be grossly underestimated...
...would be perched on the end of the robot arm, once again drawing the duty of hefting the satellite. Using "Mighty Joe Allen," as one reporter called him, instead of the hook was to prove exceptionally efficient. By Wednesday morning the other rogue canister was in view; an awestruck Gardner exclaimed, "Look at that satellite!" This time it was his turn to sail forth in the Buck Rogers backpack, his body silhouetted against the Gulf of Mexico. And when he, too, easily pierced Westar with his stinger, he radioed over to his partner, "Joe, it's just like...
...sophisticated $75 million instrument on the eleventh shuttle flight last April. But Astronaut George Nelson was unable to grasp the Solar Max with a device mounted on the arms of his backpack. An alternate technique worked, but the failed grappler plan had to be abandoned. In June, Astronaut Dale Gardner, who would be part of last week's mission, sketched out an alternative idea on the back of an envelope. The now famous stinger was born...
...relatively experienced crew had been chosen for the critical mission. Commander Frederick Hauck, 43, had been the pilot of the seventh shuttle flight. Allen flew on the fifth voyage, when he had been unable to take a scheduled space stroll. Gardner, 36, who had been on the eighth mission, would accompany Allen on the rescue space walk. Only Pilot David Walker, 40, and Anna Fisher, 35, were rookies. In a program that trumpets its firsts, Fisher was proudly presented as the first mother in space; married to another astronaut, William Fisher, she gave birth to Daughter Kristin in July...
...m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into the flight," when the main engines shut down...