Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the shuttle swoops around the temporary satellite for some nine hours, Ride and her unique arm will try to grapple it back on board. The experiment is a test of the shuttle's ability to retrieve and repair ailing satellites; at least one of those now in orbit will get shuttle-delivered doctoring on a future mission if Ride is successful...
Western Europe-with its huge economic potential, its industrious 236 million people-is critical for both Europeans and Americans. Should it slide slowly out of the alliance orbit in order to seek accommodation with Moscow, the global balance of power would change drastically...
...Although Andropov's response noted that Moscow had presented a draft treaty to the United Nations in 1981 calling for a ban on weapons in space, he failed to mention that the Soviet Union has already tested an ASAT, or antisatellite interceptor, capable of destroying a satellite in orbit. The U.S. began in the early 1970s to develop a similar weapon...
With those words the first American to orbit the earth became the sixth announced candidate, and perhaps the last, to enter the race for the 1984 Democratic nomination. Glenn's Senate colleague, Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, earlier in the week joined the field, which already included former Vice President Walter Mondale, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, California Senator Alan Cranston and former Florida Governor Reubin Askew...
...admitted to being upset with the end result of the whole effort. They had, as Sloan noted, established a base which they are confident will continue to grow in strength. "Not only has Glenn got the right stuff [a reference to a recent book about Glenn's 1964 orbit of the earth] but apparently he's got the right staff to reach the people." Joyce said...