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...believe this, but this is fun," Truly, who celebrated his 44th birthday yesterday, said to Mission Control after the craft achieved orbit. Engle said the launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., was "very smooth...
...Columbia was lofted into a 137-mile high orbit by 6.4 million pounds of thrust from its three liquid fuel engines and by two rocket boosters, which trailed a thick column of white smoke as they burned their solid fuel...
...after a leak was detected in the catalyst which generates electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen. While mission flight operations rules dictate a minimal mission of 54 hours when only two fuel cells are working, the Columbia could still operate the full duration of its planned 124 hour, 83-orbit mission, a spokesman for United Technologies, which manufactures the cells, said yesterday...
...above the earth, Columbia will try out a $100 million, Canadian-built "arm in space." Unless the Remote Manipulator System, as the huge skyhook is called in NASA jargon, really works, the shuttle will be unable to perform one of its key roles in space: to place satellites into orbit and retrieve them when they fail...
...spectra can also be created by directing a light beam or, say, X or gamma rays at an object. As the radiant energy strikes the atoms, their electrons hop from one orbit (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, one energy level) to another, absorbing or emitting light at specific frequencies. Such spectra yielded invaluable data about atomic and molecular structure...