Word: houston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hanks turns in another phenomenal performance. You can practically see the ice flowing in the test pilot veins of Lovell as he informs Mission Control of the craft's life-threatening emergency with a calm, steady, "Houston, we have a problem...
...would be lucky to walk again on the earth. In an anxious four days, they would learn how to pilot a wounded, runaway craft; they would assemble an air purifier using homely artifacts found in any space module; and they would hope against hope that the guys back in Houston knew how to improvise against chaos...
Atlantis Commander Hoot Gibson gave a Houston Rockets T-shirt to Cosmonaut Anatoly Solavyev, as theRussian and American crews wrapped up the final day of their joint mission aboard the Mir space stationin a celebratory mood. Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could...
SPACE CENTER, Houston--In an extraordinary display of scientific cooperation between two former rivals, an American shuttle was closing in on a Russian space outpost yesterday for a joyous linkup high above Earth...
...Houston Rockets defeated the Orlando Magic 113-101 to finish a four-game sweep and retain their N.B.A. title. Seeded sixth among eight Western Conference play-off contenders, the Rockets outperformed the teams with the league's four best records en route to winning a record nine play-off games on the road...