Word: launching
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Despite severed communications links, each SA-6 missile battery--known as "the three fingers of death" for its trio of missiles--remains lethal. The missiles can be targeted by sight, which means the electronic emissions that would betray their positions will occur only just before launch. The last U.S. warplane previously downed in combat--Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 over Bosnia in 1995--was brought down using the technique...
Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click...
...Launch of the first communications satellite, Telstar...
...American physicist Robert Goddard conducts the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket...
...Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. It fails to operate properly, but is repaired three years later by space-walking astronauts...