Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made five space flights, including a moon landing, and his rookie pilot, Bob Crippen, 43. Though their lift-off was delayed two days because of that computer failure, once they settled into the cockpit for the second try, everything went, well, like a rocket. Barely 45 min. off the launch pad, Columbia was circling the earth at an altitude of 150 miles. Before the end of the day it reached 170 miles. Meanwhile, two vessels steamed out to recover the 80-ton shells of two spent solid-fuel rockets that had parachuted into the Atlantic. When a nosey Soviet "trawler...
There were also a few mi nor glitches. During the first "night" in space-actually they saw the sun rise and set once during every 90-min. orbit-Young and Crippen complained about a chill in the cabin. The temperature had drooped to 37° F. "I was ready to break out the long undies," joked one of the frozen astronauts. The problem was quickly fixed with a signal from earth that pumped warm water into the cabin's temperature control system. Young and Crippen had less luck fixing a faulty flight data recorder that had stopped mysteriously. They...
...artfully landed Columbia right on the runway's center line. Eager to make an exit, he urged Houston to get the reception crews to speed up their "sniffing" chores-ridding the ship of noxious gases with exhausts and fans. When he was finally allowed to emerge, 63 min. after touchdown, he bounded down the stairs, checked out the tiles and landing gear, then jubilantly jabbed the air with his fists. It was probably Young's most uncontrolled move of the entire flight...
Louis' most famous fight lasted a mere 2 min. 4 sec. In a rematch with Max Schmeling, who had kayoed him in 1936, Louis redefined fury. Schmeling had to recover in a hospital. Now 75 and a prosperous West German businessman, Schmeling last week recalled his postwar friendship with Louis: "Joe was a highly decent person, but he was exploited because he was so good-natured...
...giant slalom at Laax, Switzerland, needing a third-place finish or better to edge out the great Swedish slalom and giant-slalom specialist Ingemar Stenmark in the winter-long Cup competition. At the end of the two giant-slalom runs at Laax, Mahre had a combined time of 2 min. 40.05 sec. That put him in second place for the day behind Alexander Zhirov, a rising Soviet star, who came in at 2 min. 39.80 sec. Stenmark was third, at 2 min. 40.24 sec. But Mahre's finish was enough to seal his Cup victory, giving him a season...