Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight's highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions...
...putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide the deal as long as the most crucial U.S. design secrets were not given away...
Even if technical problems ground the shuttle program again, there will still be some big news from space. In July, for example, NASA will use a Delta rocket to launch the Cosmic Background Explorer, a satellite that will study the background microwave radiation that emanates from every part of the cosmos. These microwaves are thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion...
Commonalities bring people together. It is a natural human tendency to associate with those with whom we share a common ground. Classical music brings musicians together to form orchestras. Political ideologies bring people to form Republican and Democratic organizations. And historical and cultural similarities and common political, educational and social needs bring minority students together to form minority groups...
...Friendly flight attendant dance. If one of your fellow flight attendants beats you to the microphone, you'll have to keep the passengers entertained with the world-famous, flight attendant shuffle. First, swing your arms round and round. Point them up and to the ground. Grab a mask and cover your nose. Now it's time...