Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian space program, the comeback was supposed to begin this month. Ever since the fall of communism, the agency that gave the world Sputnik, Gagarin and the space station Mir appeared to have fallen too, with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country...
...little more than a week ago, the grand promenade to Mars turned into a near Earth lob shot, when a booster malfunction sent the spacecraft plummeting back to Earth shortly after its launch. For a time it looked as if the craft was going to hit Australia, endangering the outback not just with debris but also with the 270 grams of plutonium it was carrying as a power source. That disaster was averted when the ship sailed past the continent and plopped ignominiously into the Pacific...
...titled "Victory Strategy: Post Convention to Labor Day." It read, "The Goal: Get Campaign on the Offensive. Create Momentum. Hurt Clinton." Can't argue with that. The idea was to use the time leading up to the convention "to re-establish the right/wrong and moral-crisis agenda." Dole should launch his "tax cut/growth plan" during the convention, they said, then promote it on a whistle-stop tour...
DIED. JUNIUS JAYEWARDENE, 90, former President of Sri Lanka, whose reforms helped launch its economy but whose inability to stop a civil war has brought the country to a crash and cost it 50,000 lives so far; in Colombo...
...December NASA and Russian officials will meet in Washington to discuss a joint 2001 Mars mission that may make use of the shelved Russian rover. NASA itself has even more ambitious plans. With $100 million a year in Mars money promised by Congress, the space agency hopes to launch a pair of flights like Surveyor and Pathfinder every two years until...