Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astronaut became the first American to take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space flight on the human body. Thagard is scheduled to stay aboard Mir for three months, which will be the longest time an American has spent in orbit, but that won't impress Valery Polyakov; the Lou Gehrig of cosmonauts will finally get to leave Mir and return to earth this week after a record-breaking 440 days in space...
...shuttle history just got longer. With Florida socked in by stormy weather, Endeavor was unable to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center today. NASA is mulling a Saturday landing either at Kennedy or at Edwards Air Force Base in California. As of Saturday, Endeavor will have been in orbit for 16 1/2 days, surpassing the 14-day, 18-hour flight by Columbia last year. While weather at Kennedy is expected to improve only slightly by tomorrow, nearly perfect conditions are forecast for the Mojave Desert landing strip. NASA prefers Kennedy because it costs $1 million to ferry shuttles from...
Thagard chatted in orbit with space shuttle Endeavor commander Stephen Oswald in the first radio link between astronauts on Russian and American spaceships. Endeavor is set to land in Florida tomorrow after a record-setting 15 1/2-day orbit...
...Multiply by 8 to get the number in a cubic foot: 24,808. Now I just need the number of cubic feet in Soldier Field. My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit. I prance over the black zigzags of the control cables and commandeer a unit...
...Congress. Its most expensive items are the billion-dollar spy satellites that former CIA Director James Woolsey, who had frequent funding battles with Congress, wanted to upgrade. But Senate critics complain that the CIA already has six photographic spy satellites sitting in warehouses, which, along with the ones in orbit, could take pictures for at least the next decade. New satellites for intercepting communications signals would be parked most of the time over the former Soviet Union. ``They should have been sent to the Air and Space Museum,'' argues John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists...