Word: orbits
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...competitor, including the Soviet Union. On occasion, the exported arms have been instrumental in the defense of democracy, as in Israel. Along with much-needed economic aid, particularly to the many arms-purchasing nations from the Third World, weapons have had some value in drawing nations into the American orbit and cementing alliances...
Like all new spacecraft, including the U.S. space shuttle Columbia, Ariane has had its problems. Its second trial in May 1980 ended with a mid-air explosion. But since then, it has carried four satellites, two per launch, into high earth orbit. The most recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch...
...necessary to the death. Whether they are within the Soviet orbit or outside it-and whether they are genuinely concerned about making Communist power more humane or efficient-their overriding preoccupation is with preserving that power...
...Last Star, but she might just as well have said The Last Vamp. Taylor probably is the end of a line that stretches back to Clara Bow: flamboyant, outsize and so self-absorbed and utterly beautiful that anyone who comes near is likely to be drawn into her orbit by force of gravity. As Fisher puts it somewhat less kindly, "Elizabeth liked to collect trophies...
...Engle and Truly had still managed to perform most of their work load, especially the key experiment: trying out for the first time in zero-gravity the shuttle's $100 million Canadian-built mechanical arm. On future flights, the arm will be used to place satellites in earth orbit and to pluck them out of space and load them into the orbiter's big cargo bay when they require servicing or replacing. NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent...