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Word: missions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPACE CENTER, Houston--A problem with a hydrogen tank aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery forced its astronauts to conserve energy yesterday and threatened to shorten the mission, but Mission Control said there was no threat to the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tank Problem May Shorten Shuttle Trip | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

Pennington said NASA could wait as late as tomorrow before deciding to end the mission a day early. Discovery currently is scheduled to land Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tank Problem May Shorten Shuttle Trip | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

Besides the satellite, which will complete a vital communications network, the shuttle is carrying four crippled white rats and 32 chicken eggs among the scientific experiments to be studied during the five-day mission...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Shuttle Discovery Launched With Satellite | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

Shuttle chief Richard Truly said the success of this mission is "absolutely vital" to NASA's continued recovery from the Challenger accident and the agency's move toward safe, routine, monthly shuttle launches...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Shuttle Discovery Launched With Satellite | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

...mission is filled with scientific experiments. The rats, with chips of bone cut from their legs, are to be studied to determine how well broken bones heal in the weightlessness of space...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Shuttle Discovery Launched With Satellite | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

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