Word: payloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spangdahlem air base in Germany that afternoon, Albright seemed to draw energy from the spirited response of the soldiers and airmen she met. It put her into her feisty, no-nonsense mode. She peppered an F-16 pilot about whether his plane was carrying a maximum payload. "Yes, sir," the pilot responded, then stammered, "I mean, I guess...
...called Syldavia. When uranium was accidentally discovered in the Zmyhlpathian Mountains, the normally peaceful Syldavians embarked upon an ambitious nuclear energy program, protected by a sinister counter-espionage organization known only by the acronym ZEPO. Work began on a top-secret nuclear powered rocket, capable of sending a heavy payload out of the earth's atmosphere. On a still summer evening, the Syldavians surprised the world by launching the X-FLR6 on a mysterious course for outer space...
...American rocketry up to it? Earlier this week, and for the third time in a month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...
...lies dormant in the computer system and then delivers its payload on the 26th of April," he said...
Writing in last week's issue of Science, the Japanese researchers report that they achieved this feat of bovine photocopying using two different types of cells, taken from a single cow's ovaries and fallopian tubes. Those cells--all carrying the same genetic payload--were introduced into cow ova whose genes had been scooped away. Ten such identical embryos were then implanted in the wombs of surrogate cow mothers, and all but two came to term...