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...that’s right. From the minds that brought us the awkward TD Banknorth Garden and the improbable McDonald’s All-American Basketball Team comes a new form of advertising, still in its early planning stages. Outsized billboards deployed into low earth orbit and visible to the naked eye could some day bring us the Eagles-inspired Jose Cuervo Tequila Sunrise and the largely unintended Chuck E. Cheese’s Partial Lunar Eclipse...
...sure scared us," said Flight Director Cleon Lacefield. Less than six minutes after launch last week, while the space shuttle Challenger's speed remained well below the velocity of 17,500 m.p.h. that it must achieve to go into orbit, onboard computers shut down one of its three main engines. Reason: sensors were signaling overheating in the fuel pump. Two and a half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled...
Speaking careers can be catapulted into orbit at the I.P.A. convention. Last year's amateur winner, Joe Schwartz, 74, of North Hollywood, Calif., now lectures for $1,000 a shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington
...alerted the onboard computer, and for the first time in the 24-year history of the U.S. manned space, an engine was shut down in flight. But as the craft hobbled bravely heavenward, mission control decided that the seven crew members should proceed with the flight at a stunted orbit of 197 miles above earth (the planned orbit was 242 miles). Challenger carried a $73 million array of sophisticated astronomical and scientific instruments, and researchers hoped that a series of 14 experiments, some painstakingly calculated for the higher orbit, would still work...
...exchanged stolen credit card numbers, bypassed long-distance telephone fees, traded supposedly secret phone numbers (including those of top Pentagon officials) and published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...