Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Systems waiting to go into orbit include the first of the new Milstar communications satellites, designed to maintain military communications in a nuclear war; a Defense Support Program heat-sensing satellite to give warning of hostile missile launches; and a Lacrosse satellite with a special radar system to provide detailed pictures of the ground even through clouds and at night. One of the two Lacrosses currently in orbit has been up for more than four years and needs to be replaced. "Any lengthy delay in getting the Titan IV operational could be critical to the U.S. surveillance capability," said Richelson...
...space station and don't want any changes. By going along to get along, however, he robbed the station of its last pretext of a scientific rationale; on the new station, astronauts will have to live on the space shuttle and will be able to stay in orbit only 20 days -- so much for studying the effects of long-duration weightlessness...
There is yet one slim hope for a space station that plays a positive role in the universe. The special outside panel helping Clinton evaluate these plans recommended strongly that the space station go into a high-inclination orbit so that Russian spacecraft can visit from the Baikonur spaceport and perhaps perform rescue operations. Even that, however, might be too much for our partners. Launching at high inclinations reduces the shuttle's payload because the rockets get less of a boost from the earth's rotation; as a result, the Japanese and European modules may be too heavy...
...best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough. Let the Russians in, or stand aside and let the bum fall...
...most obvious difference between Sarah Mathews (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal Jackson (Ted Danson), as the least of their problems. It's not so much the discovery that, because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, Hal may be the father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...