Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially. "This still isn't costing as much as the race to the moon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger, "but it's getting there...
...comet or asteroid strike the earth." The 7829 Jaroff has a diameter of 8 to 10 km--about the size of the comet that killed off the dinosaurs. He points out that his asteroid is so far considered benign, meaning it does not threaten to intercept the earth's orbit anytime soon. Needless to say, Jaroff is quite pleased to be acknowledged by the IAU and to gain this bit of immortality: "I've never had anything named after me before, not even my children...
...national correspondent; in a car crash; near Atlanta. Holliman was part of the original CNN reporting team and, together with Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett, filed live from Baghdad during the 1991 allied bombing. He was scheduled to co-anchor with Walter Cronkite John Glenn's return to orbit next month...
SOHO was still close to its proper orbit, wobbling at top and bottom and rotating once a minute, too slow to have caused structural damage. Even more encouraging, the geometry of SOHO's orbit was tilting the craft's axis of rotation toward the sun by about a degree a day. That was gradually increasing the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels. Ground controllers ordered SOHO to store that intermittent flow of energy and recharge its batteries...
...attraction isn't only that it's a person out there; it's the aloneness. The person is always alone; no matter if he really is alone or not. He is Columbus, Lindbergh and Glenn in his original three-orbit flight. After the Friendship 7 flight in 1962, Glenn said it for everyone: "Now we can get rid of some of that automatic equipment and let man take over...