Word: orbits
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...finale of the shuttle's eleventh and most ambitious mission was supposed to have taken place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, site of the launch. But just as Shuttle Commander Bob Crippen and his crew prepared to descend from orbit and end their seven-day, more-than-2 million-mile flight, storm clouds began gathering near Cape Canaveral, complicating Challenger's descent. The California touchdown will force NASA to transport Challenger back across the U.S. to Florida and will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the mission. The trip across the continent...
...script for the mission was showy but simple. Its highlight was to be a free-floating walk in space to retrieve the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite (Solar Max). Sent aloft to monitor the sun's activity, Max broke down three years ago, after only ten months in orbit. Challenger's mission last week was to stop the rotation of Max, use the spacecraft's 50-ft. remote-controlled arm to lift the satellite into the ship's cargo bay, and set it back in orbit after repairs were made...
...curtain for the 106½ -orbit flight went up with a glitch-free liftoff. For the first tune, Challenger hurtled directly into orbit instead of making the conventional three-part ascent. The lineal climb was designed to save the craft's maneuvering rocket fuel for the tricky rendezvous with...
Aside from focusing on galaxies never before examined, the 10-ton, 45-ft-long satellite will travel into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle to an altitude of about 288 miles The high resolution telescope will examine, among other phenomena, quasars, black holes, super novae, and galaxies yet unexplored...
...While in orbit it will undergo Space Shuttle service calls to allow it to periodically receive new, state-of-the-art technology...