Word: parkers
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Last week, the Parker Hill Family Youth Development Council placed special drop-off boxes in the Medical School area where Harvard students and employees can make donations of food, clothing and toys, said Mili Roca, director of the council...
...researchers from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation of the spacemen rose. Snapped Mission Specialist Bob Parker: "I think you might be quiet until we get one or the other [experiment] done...
...performed poorly. All of these will have to be reflown on future missions. There were also problems with the effort to create artificial auroras, a simulation of the northern lights. Still, at least some scientific data were salvaged by an impromptu orbital repair. Under detailed guidance from Mission Control, Parker managed to free a jammed tape recorder used to store the results of experiments. His tool: a 69? Phillips screwdriver...
Rounding out the crew will be Owen Garriott, 53, a specialist in ionospheric physics who spent 59½ days aboard Skylab, and Astronomer Robert Parker, 46, who was a member of the support crews for Apollo 15 and 17. Both are so-called mission specialists: These are career astronauts who concentrate on science rather than flying. By contrast, payload specialists are hired only for a particular mission. In either case, all the crew members will earn their salary (astronaut pay starts at $24,500 a year and goes to more than $50,000) since this is the first flight...
Head Crew Coach Harry Parker said the race is perennially a rough indication of how well the team will compete in the spring season with local teams, but not with those from outside the Boston area...