Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children: "I was using my loud voice." Instead she will display a compulsion for propriety at all costs. "Let's not talk about it any more," she exclaims. "It's a holiday!" And on holiday, Sternhagen's trill ascends to a wail, and she practically flutters into orbit over her brood...
...stations. Earlier rocket-launched versions weighed a little more than a ton. The shuttle, with its greater thrust and ample cargo bay, permits the U.S. to launch a satellite three times as large and boost it to a height of 22,300 miles, where it can stay in "geosynchronous" orbit, maintaining its position over the same spot of the earth...
Ustinov earned the prestigious award a second time in 1961, from Nikita Khrushchev for his work in ensuring that the first man to orbit the earth was a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. The irascible Soviet Premier valued Ustinov's managerial skills enough to appoint him First Deputy Premier and place him in control of the civilian economy in 1963. When Leonid Brezhnev took power, Ustinov returned to the defense industry and took charge of developing the Soviet Union's strategic bomber force and intercontinental ballistic missile system...
...wondering what exactly Stanley Kubrick was trying to say, but it was definitely an intriguing film and helped define the science fiction genre. It must be remembered that when the film opened in 1968, man had yet to walk in space, put laboratories and reusable space vehicles into orbit or even land on some of our neighboring planets. New cinema to graphic techniques and plot design helped to make that film a true classic...
...handle a payload of 4.2 tons. NASA's plans call for a more modest increase in capacity, to between 1.75 and 2 tons by 1986. In addition, Arianespace officials expect that by the mid-1990s they will be able to place heavy loads with great precision into low orbit, which would be a direct challenge to one of the space shuttle's strengths. Says Roger Vignelles, launch director for the French National Space Agency, a part owner of Arianespace: "I think that we can give the Americans an interesting run for their money...