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Besides putting the orbiter itself through a rigorous series of maneuvers, Engle and Truly conducted several successful tests of a 50-foot mechanical arm, which on future missions will be used to retrieve satellites for in-flight servicing or later repairs on earth, and to deploy payloads from the shuttle's cargo hold. On this mission, the 15-foot by 60-foot cargo bay held its first scientific payload, with experiments designed to study a variety of geologic, atmospheric, and oceanic features...
...long trial of the slot machines proves successful on the Singapore-San Francisco run, S.A. will install them on the remainder of the airline's fleet of 16 jumbo jets. Airline officials profess that they are not endorsing gambling, only providing their customers with a different form of in-flight entertainment. It is also one that could help make up for revenues lost to seat-occupying passengers...
...Reagan Administration and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization over whether air travel is still safe. Asserting that there had been "a dramatic increase in the number of system errors and near midair collisions" since the Aug. 3 walkout, PATCO released a report detailing more than two dozen in-flight incidents and claimed there have been more than 150. But the Federal Aviation Administration said there were only eleven "near misses," compared with 31 during the same period in 1980.* Assured FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms: "We have no reason to believe that the system has deteriorated in safety...
...always, there was in-flight banter between the astronauts and the Houston control center. When Crippen felt Houston was loading him with too many tasks at one time-realigning the inertial navigational unit, shooting a picture of the Southern Lights, confirming a message on the teletype-he asked in mock seriousness: "You mean all that right now?" To jog the astronauts awake, Houston piped in a loud country and western ditty about the shuttle called The Mean Machine. There was a somewhat more serious moment when Vice President Bush got on the radio from Washington to congratulate them on behalf...
Eastern Air Lines, working with a Miami-based company called In-Flight Communications, has begun an advertising program that makes no such claim. Eastern on many flights has shown one-minute ads for Lanier dictating equipment and the familiar Hertz television film clip of O.J. Simpson flying like Superman through the air toward his rent...