Word: linkup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That won't be easy. Even as they approached Mir, the automatic docking system failed, forcing the cosmonauts to complete the linkup manually. Worse, the Russian Space Agency concluded that it won't be possible to fix Mir's broken oxygen generator until a key replacement part is brought up by the U.S. space shuttle next month, forcing the crew--temporarily up to five men last week--to continue burning oxygen-generating chemical "candles...
...NASA'S GRAND SLAM The Hubble Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...
SPACE CENTER, Houston--In an extraordinary display of scientific cooperation between two former rivals, an American shuttle was closing in on a Russian space outpost yesterday for a joyous linkup high above Earth...
...Communications announced a $2 billion plan to connect corporate customers in 20 of the nation's biggest cities to its long-distance network directly -- bypassing the local Bell telephone companies and avoiding the access charges, now totaling $5 billion a year, that MCI pays them for their linkup. The move intensified calls in Washington for reduced regulation of the telecommunications industry...
...proposed British Airways-USAir linkup, the most controversial of them all, is seen by its U.S. partner as a move into the big leagues. After a decade of rapid expansion, USAir has stalled, losing $973 million since 1989. Says George James, an airline-industry analyst: "Their situation is desperate. They have grown into an airline the size of a global carrier without global routes. If they don't obtain the British Airways deal, they will have to reduce their size back down to that of a regional commuter airline...