Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to ABC, the memo said that if the shuttle had been launched, the engines could have quit before the craft entered orbit, leading to a possible emergency landing in Spain and "serious safety-offlight consequences...
During the first half of the 1980s, the value of the U.S. dollar seemed to be going into orbit. While American consumers enjoyed cheap imports and luxuriated in foreign travel bargains, U.S. manufacturers complained bitterly that they were being clobbered by overseas competitors. But early last year the dollar bailed out, with a slight push from anxious international moneymen. At first the decline was a gentle drift, but it is now showing signs of becoming a free fall. Since December the dollar has dropped by 19% against the Japanese yen and 8% against the West German mark. It dipped last...
...Without any film? No, what we were thinking of doing is sending them into orbit...
...help youngsters remove their passions from the family and place them in the outside community. "That's one reason why so many boys seem to kill themselves after breaking up with a girlfriend," she says. "The breakup is felt as a failure to break out of the family orbit...
...most immediate impetus for the development of the jet is military: the space plane could carry Star Wars nuclear defense weapons into orbit. It is also designed to compete with NASA's space shuttle, lifting payloads into orbit for less than $100 a pound. That would be a bargain compared with the shuttle's fee of $2,000 a pound...