Word: heavensent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Launched nearly four years ago, the bulbous, beetle-shaped ship was the latest in a series named in "salute" to a Soviet folk hero, the late Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. Though weighing only about a quarter as much as Skylab, which came tumbling ignominiously back to earth in...
It was such a new world, reaching to the far horizon without break of tree or chimney stack: just sky and grass and grass and sky....The hush was so loud. As I lay in my unplastered upstairs room, the heavens seemed nearer than ever before and awe and beauty...
So it was: simple and flawless, almost as if it had been performed countless times before. Yet the picture-perfect landing on California's Mojave Desert last week all but obscured the historic nature of those last, breathtaking moments of Columbia's 54½-hr. odyssey. Gone were...
Around midnight, the clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng...
So did a waiting, watching world. Two days late but this time almost precisely on its new schedule-indeed, only 3.983 sec. late, by Launch Control's incredibly accurate reckoning-the spaceship Columbia took off on man's first commuter run into the heavens. Two minutes after the...