Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet long-range warheads targeted against the continental U.S. Nor is there anything in the fine print of the prospective deal that would prevent the Soviets from replacing every two-stage intermediate-range SS-20 they dismantle with a three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile called the SS-25. That rocket is fired from a similar launcher and can hit not only $ Bonn and Paris but also Boston and Peoria. Substituting SS-25s for SS-20s would violate the 1979 SALT II treaty. But last year the Reagan Administration renounced SALT II and exceeded its limits. The Soviets are free...
Fire and smoke streamed across the desert outside Brigham City, Utah, last week as Morton Thiokol successfully fired its redesigned booster rocket for NASA's shuttle fleet. With the test, the crippled shuttle program cleared its first major technical hurdle in resuming flights, now set for next summer...
Tehran responded by unleashing its fleet of small speedboats armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against neutral oil tankers and freighters. The speedboats, with crews of four to eight men and often no markings indicating country of origin, are Iran's chief weapon in the gulf. The boats made hit-and-run attacks against Greek, Cypriot, Italian, Spanish, South Korean and Japanese vessels. On Friday, Iran for the first time launched one of its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles from occupied Iraqi territory on the Fao peninsula. The missile plunged harmlessly into the water off a Kuwaiti beach...
...boat that looks "like it's going 20 knots when it's sitting at the dock," explains Denison. Perhaps the most stunning example is the Bannenberg-designed, 110-ft. Never Say Never, owned by Gary Blonder, a flamboyant entrepreneur who made his fortune in used auto parts. This rocket ship skims the waves at 34 knots full throttle (about 39 m.p.h.) and was used as a setting on Miami Vice...
When the shuttle Challenger exploded off Florida 19 months ago, U.S. space policy also went up in smoke. A series of unsuccessful launchings, including the loss of an Atlas-Centaur rocket fired into a lightning storm last March, has further devastated the space program and left it floundering. In a 63-page report prepared for NASA and released last week, Astronaut Sally Ride attempts to set the agency back on track. She argues for an "evolutionary" policy with diverse objectives, rather than a splashy, one-goal venture. Writes Ride, who was the first American woman in space: "It would...