Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Force report estimated that one of the solid rocket boosters on board the space shuttle would fail in every 35 shuttle launches, The Boston Globe reported today...
...report said more optimistic estimates "have no quantitative justification at all" and that this was clearly acknowledged in an earlier NASA-commissioned study on which the disputed estimates were based, the Globe said...
...said two future shuttle missions were to use plutonium-powered generators. NASA estimates there is only one chance in 100,000 of a breach in the material holding the plutonium and that a breach would have minimal effect on public health, the Globe said...
...military imperative. While the Soviets were pushing ahead with their missile program, American strategists had clung to the notion that manned bombers rather than rockets were the most suitable, and somehow the most romantic, way to fight wars in the Atomic Age. With alliances and airfields that ringed the globe, the U.S. had seen no reason to bring the nuclear race into space. Now it was necessary...
...Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe. Without the continuing spectaculars in space, Nixon's demise because of Watergate would have produced even more of a national trauma than...