Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to see why. After all, the shuttle is simply a glorified tow-truck, carting satellites into space. The shuttle was never meant to be exciting--it was designed as a less expensive method for placing military and communications satellites in orbit...
...shuttle may serve some auxiliary role in the space program, but the thrust of the program should be to further scientific knowledge of space. Even sending astronauts beyond earth orbit would be a welcome break from the cargo-hauler routine of the shuttle, for it would at least appeal to the imaginatior of the average person. Clearly, however the greatest scientific returns come from increased use of spacecraft. Although the shuttle is back in service, the United States still lacks a successful space program...
...coincidence of two events often reveals connections usually hidden. At the same time Gorbachev was visiting the country, the space shuttle Atlantis secretly deployed a spy satellite that can practically pick out his birthmark from orbit...
...space shuttle reflects these tendencies; of the next seven missions, three are secret military shots and two are for the investigation of Jupiter and Venus. One cannot deny the prudence of orbital reconnaissance or the nobility of interplanetary research, but our recent record in putting up communication satellites is not a good one, nor has our progress toward performing significant technological research in orbit been very swift. The shuttle itself may not be the optimal vehicle when war is no longer a significant threat. As James Bamford, author of "The Puzzle Palace" noted in Monday's Christian Science Monitor, "Nobody...
...very clean ascent for Atlantis; there were no problems encountered on the way to orbit," said Brian Welch, commentator at Mission Control in Houston said. The two solid fuel booster rockets successfully burned out two minutes and eight seconds into liftoff. Failure of a booster rocket joint caused the Challenger's destruction...