Word: rendezvouses
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For the first time, the delta-winged spacecraft will climb directly into orbit with only one intermediate firing by its orbital maneuvering engines. A steeper ascent, made possible by improvements in engine thrust, will save fuel, which may be needed for the rendezvous maneuvers with Solar Max. Once it is...
Reagan, who had earlier slashed furiously at the space program and even canceled an unmanned rendezvous with Halley's comet, was apparently won over by two key points: 1) the increasing sophistication of the Soviet space effort, which has permitted cosmonauts to remain aboard their semipermanent Salyut space stations...
On the third Tuesday of every month in the fall and winter of 1980, a bizarre rendezvous allegedly took place in Washington, D.C. A Navy officer in a plain civilian suit carried a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist into the parlor of "Madame Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking...
As the search went on, many Marines, stunned and angry, swapped memories about those killed. One Navy corpsman had just married a Lebanese woman. He had returned from his honeymoon a day early, on Sunday, just in time for a rendezvous with death. Some recalled the Marine staff sergeant who...
NO ONE can help laughing at Babe's thwarted attempts to hang herself with knitting yarn, or at the speculation over Lenny's secret rendezvous with a Tennessee gentleman. Yet simultaneously, both scenes arouse pity--a comic pathos that only a perceptive and talented playwright like Henley could achieve.