Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These orbital theatrics have a high purpose. In pushing off from Challenger's open cargo bay, Astronauts Bruce McCandless II, 46, and Robert Stewart, 41, both of whom are making their initial shuttle trips, will be rehearsing the first repair of a satellite in orbit. That is slated to take place in April, when astronauts attempt to retrieve and revive a $150 million robot scientific observatory nicknamed Solar Max, which has been spinning helplessly since it broke down three years ago. If this tinkering succeeds, it could pave the way for even more ambitious efforts, including the assembly...
Because of the station's limited size, life on board may be somewhat restricted, but hardly boring. Besides doing their regular-chores, the workers will occasionally have to leave the station in small maneuverable capsules to retrieve satellites for repair or help nudge additional units into place. In their idle hours occupants will browse through the station's library or play video cassettes. They will exercise regularly, perhaps on fixed bicycles or treadmills; such exertion ensures continued muscle tone and the health of the cardiovascular system in the less taxing weightless environment. Even couples may be allowed...
...cost estimate for the plant, situated near the small town of Madison, was about $1.4 billion. But Marble Hill ran into the same sort of quality-control problems that have bedeviled the rest of the nuclear power industry, and costs shot upward. Construction crews, for instance, routinely failed to repair properly the air pockets that formed in the concrete as it was being poured. Last month a task force estimated the total price of completing the project would be $7.7 billion or more...
...Reagan's most trusted political advisers, Clark is eager to repair the President's image in an election year. Indeed, he has already sent a number of small fence-mending signals to the environmental community. Reversing a Watt policy, he offered the National Wildlife Federation hitherto-refused federal data on the amount of poisonous lead shot that duck hunters inadvertently scatter into lakes and ponds. With that gesture, he buried the hatchet with the largest conservation group in the U.S. Clark also promised that he would end the moratorium imposed by Watt on acquiring new land...
...Paulson, 61, founder of Gulfstream Aerospace, the maker of plush corporate jets. As an Iowa farm boy growing up in the Depression, Paulson supported himself by selling newspapers and cleaning hotel bathrooms. Following high school, he went to work for TWA as a mechanic and moonlighted at an auto-repair garage. After selling surplus airplane parts and advising competing airlines and then TWA on engine design, Paulson in 1951 set up his own business converting surplus passenger planes into cargo aircraft. It grew, and by 1978 he was ready to begin building airplanes on his own. He acquired Grumman...