Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manning, Pathfinder's flight-systems chief engineer, dubbed "The Little Rover That Could." Having inched its way down the steeply inclined lander ramp, the six-wheeled Sojourner crept gingerly onto the Martian surface early last week and, in its first official scientific experiment, shoved the nose of its X-ray spectrometer into the dust at the foot of the lander...
...once the largest known floodplain in the solar system. Water rushed into the valley at up to 170 m.p.h., carrying a giant spelunker's bag of rocks with it. Without venturing very far from where the lander set down, the rover could thus use its cameras and X-ray spectrometer to sample geology from all over the planet. Sojourner is scheduled to conduct these studies for up to a month, depending on how quickly the extreme temperatures (from -15[degrees]F by day to -125[degrees]F at night) at last claim it. The Pathfinder lander, with instruments and cameras...
...everyone at NASA is convinced that Goldin's thrift-shop ships are up to the trips. "Faster and cheaper is not necessarily better," says Ray Newburn, a veteran astronomer with 41 years of experience working on J.P.L. missions. "It's nice to have some small missions where you don't have all your eggs in one basket. But you can't always be cheap about missions that go way out and have to last a decade or more...
...under the sun, it should have been there. We have always given most-favored-planet status to Mars. How would you describe an elephant to a man from Mars? If a man from Mars were to visit Earth...? And so forth. Orson Welles broadcast bulletins of our scariest Martians; Ray Walston played our favorite...
MEMPHIS: The questions about whether James Earl Ray's rifle killed Martin Luther King Jr., deepened with test results showing that most of the test bullets fired from the rifle had marks different from the slug that killed King. But because the bullets were fired nearly two decades after the assassination, it's difficult to conclusively say that Ray's rifle did not kill King. Hoping for confirmation, Ray's lawyers are in a Memphis court asking for additional tests. Lawyers told Judge Joe Brown that they were also seeking results from FBI test-firings conducted shortly after the killings...