Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone certainly stood tall today," said Kennedy Space Center Director Forrest S. McCartney as Discovery settled into orbit, 184 miles above earth...
...sure appreciate your all getting us up in orbit the way we should be," Discovery's commander, Navy Capt. Frederick Hauck, told Mission Control. "We're looking forward to the next four days--we have a lot to do and we're going to have a lot of fun doing...
Lift-off was the first and most important milestone, but more was at stake than simply getting into space. The two-year grounding of the shuttle fleet set back the nation's satellite delivery capability, and the release of a communications satellite was the main order of business in orbit, several hours after launch...
...four-day Discovery mission will be the first shuttle flight since Challenger exploded in a fireball 73 seconds after liftoff from the same launch pad on Jan. 28, 1986. The accident ceded manned space to the Soviet Union, which has put 16 cosmonauts into orbit since then, aboard six flights...
...other snag involved the scraping off of a layer of paint on one of Discovery's small jet thrusters used to position the shuttle in orbit. But it was found that underlayers of the thermal paint were intact, and that the thruster could be bypassed if need...