Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful flight of the space shuttle Columbia did more than raise American spirits. It broke a Soviet monopoly. For nearly six years before Columbia 's mission, earth orbit had been an exclusive Soviet preserve. Not a single U.S. astronaut flew in space during that period, while Soviet cosmonauts set one orbital endurance mark after another, finally reaching 185 days, more than twice the duration of America's longest Skylab mission. Most of this time was spent aboard a single Soviet spacecraft, a remarkable 20-ton mobile home in the sky called Salyut...
...fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
With whole armies of executives now being transferred in and out almost daily by their employers, the real estate market has been kept churning, and resale values for homes have shot into orbit. In Weston, a three-or four-bedroom ranch that might have sold new in 1970 for $50,000 would today be snapped up almost immediately...
...once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent space shuttle into orbit and land it gently back on earth, it has failed to care properly for its most important public works...
...funk, the Eicher approach evolved from early infatuations with Coleman, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Talking about jazz, he still sounds like a booster for the home team. "As much as I like and appreciate the African spontaneity that propels so much jazz, I feel that the Western orbit has a specific quality to add. Complex polyphonies. Extended silences. The value of the contemplative...