Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is going smooth as silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle. Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts...
...lift-off will mark the U.S.'s first nocturnal launch of a manned spacecraft since Apollo 17 roared away in a blaze of fire and smoke shortly after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972. The glow was seen by residents of the Great Smoky Mountains, 500 miles away from Cape Canaveral. The spectacle of the ST58 launch should be even more brilliant: the shuttle's engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters will generate a temperature of 6,000° F, double that produced by the Apollo...
Still, a powerless landing poses major difficulties. The flaps, which normally slow a plane down while increasing its lift, cannot be operated by the weakened hydraulic system. As a result, a 767 without power lands at about 210 m.p.h., instead of the usual 150 m.p.h. Nor can a pilot come around for a second try if he does not like his approach. Says Boeing Spokesman Tom Cole: "You only get one chance...
Jaruzelski hopes that the government's moves will persuade the U.S. and other Western nations to lift economic sanctions and help Poland avoid defaulting on its $26 billion foreign debt. Although Washington had made ending martial law a precondition for lifting sanctions, President Reagan reacted to last week's news with caution. "We're going to go by deeds, not words," he told a White House press conference. "What we want to be on guard for is having a cosmetic change in which they replace martial law with equally onerous regulations...
...strange, synthesized instruments serenading one another like computer banks pitching woo. On Let's Dance, he wedded those sounds to old rhythm and blues undercurrents and an idle jazz strain?as he says, "everything from Little Richard to John Coltrane." The result, modeled on "music that used to lift me up and make me feel really happy," was less a return to basics than a reappraisal of them...