Word: pads
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...owns the Boston Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. He has interests in ten book publishers, including Glasgow's William Collins & Sons and New York City's Harper & Row. His 20th Century Fox movie studio and six independent TV stations in the U.S. have served as the launching pad for his new Fox Television network. In Europe his Sky Channel, a satellite broadcasting service for cable-TV viewers, reaches 13.3 million homes in 22 countries...
When the gleaming white space orbiter Discovery moved onto the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early last month, it became both a soaring symbol and a thorny trial for NASA. On one hand, the 122-ft.-tall orbiter represented the agency's successful recovery from the tragic explosion 2 1/2 years ago of Challenger, the last manned U.S. space mission. Discovery was also a test: Could NASA, operating this time around with extraordinary caution and under intense scrutiny, pull off an A-O.K., on-time launch? That question has caused growing frustration in the space...
Harris said that immediately after the shutdown, the launch team remotely began to make the vehicle safe as it sat on the pad, its tank loaded with 385,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen...
Last week that trip moved a step closer to reality. From its launching pad at the Baikonur space complex, near Tyuratam in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, a Proton rocket carrying an unmanned spacecraft rose on an orange and blue column of fire that illuminated the night sky. Turning lazily eastward, the rocket sent the craft off on an ambitious mission: to scout Mars and probe Phobos, one of its two tiny moons. Far below at the sprawling complex, technicians swarmed over a sister ship that is scheduled to be launched this week on a similar mission. Exulted Roald Sagdeyev...
...been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining invaluable experience aboard the orbiting Salyut and Mir space stations. And though U.S. astronauts are scheduled to return to space this September in the shuttle Discovery, which was wheeled to its Kennedy Space Center launching pad last week, NASA Administrator James Fletcher concedes that the Soviets are now "way ahead of us in manned flight." If each nation goes its own way, he predicts, the Soviets could land humans on Mars at least five years before the U.S. could...