Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hoffman's task was to participate in spacewalks to conduct servicing and repair activities on the Hubble. The telescope was launched in 1990 with a misshapen mirror, due to a manufacturing error, which prevented it from discerning the more remote objects in the cosmos...
...Hubble rescue is by far the most difficult mission since the moon landings. The crew was set to perform at least five six-hour space walks, and maybe up to seven, in order to replace or repair the telescope's myopic primary mirror, an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components -- 11 fixes in all. Says mission scientist Edward Weiler sardonically: "This is not a trip to Grandma's house to fix the faucet...
...without this $629 million repair mission, the telescope would probably break down soon anyway. Its blurred vision, caused by an improperly ground primary mirror that NASA failed to test thoroughly before launch, is the least of the Hubble trouble. The telescope's solar panels wobble badly when they're heated by the sun; if they snapped off, the craft would be virtually powerless. It is one gyroscope away from being rudderless. And its electronics have been acting up more than they should...
...precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime. Well, then, could one at least produce a high-verisimilitude parody of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror? No, not if the Supreme Court upholds an appeals court ruling that 2 Live Crew "stole" Roy Orbison's 1964 song Oh, Pretty Woman when the group released a rap parody of the tune in 1989. (As it happens, Jackson himself has signed a friend-of-the-court brief against...
...latest expose came on Nov. 7, when the Sunday Mirror published a series of photos, ostensibly taken through a hidden camera, of the svelte princess working out at London's LA Fitness Club. Though Diana lividly decried this invasion of her privacy, there were those who thought they saw a plant. The pictures were supposedly snapped sometime last summer; yet they mysteriously appeared on the front pages the very week that Charles was making a high- profile trip through Arab states. Diana appears utterly poised, even posed. Could she actually stoop to stealing the limelight that has always been hers...