Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ease the crisis by more of the improvised remote-control repair work that has saved the day in past emergencies. But one of Columbia's three battery-like fuel cells was ruined and the craft's electrical capability was reduced by a third. After some soul searching NASA's bosses prudently called the mission to an early halt...
...flight itself, NASA spokesmen noted that even in their abbreviated tour around the earth, Engle and Truly had still managed to perform most of their work load, especially the key experiment: trying out for the first time in zero-gravity the shuttle's $100 million Canadian-built mechanical arm. On future flights, the arm will be used to place satellites in earth orbit and to pluck them out of space and load them into the orbiter's big cargo bay when they require servicing or replacing. NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted...
While National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials are disappointed that the Columbia had to come home Saturday, three days earlier than planned, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly still accomplished almost 90 per cent of the mission objectives, NASA spokesman Terry White said Monday...
Designated OSTA 1, for NASA's office of space terrestrial applications, the payload contained several instruments to help scientists refine their techniques for observing the earth from space, and for identifying untapped mineral, gas and oil deposits...
...NASA engineers believe that a "re-grouping" of objectives into the shortened flight plan provided them with more than half the expected OSTA 1 data, even though Columbia's second mission was 54 hours and 36 orbits, instead of a planned 124 hours and 83 orbits, spokesman White said. Shuttle managers will not know exactly what data they missed, however, until debriefing meetings with the astronauts and flight controllers begin tomorrow...