Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to & Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year...
That knowledge, Howard said, was a "substantial factor" in Capt. Will C. Rogers's decision to launch two missiles toward...
...annual $6 billion cost of keeping 60,000 U.S. troops on Japanese soil, a marked improvement since 1980, when the U.S. picked up nearly the entire bill. But further initiatives may be limited. When the Persian Gulf conflict threatened Japanese oil shipments last year, Tokyo could not launch an effective response. Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone reportedly wanted to send patrol ships to protect Japanese vessels but backed down under heavy domestic pressure. Tokyo settled instead for such moves as increased financial support for U.N. peace-seeking efforts and aid to Omani farmers in the embattled region...
...four of the companies that women launch begin as home-based enterprises. Kurtzig set up ASK in 1972 as a part-time business in a spare bedroom in her apartment but soon had to move to larger office quarters. Katz founded her company at home while she was pregnant with the first of her two children. Said she: "We needed the money...
More than two years after the Challenger disaster, NASA prepares for the planned launch of the shuttle Discovery with an eye on safety...