Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countdown had been proceeding smoothly since January of last year, when former Astronaut Donald (Deke) Slayton announced that Houston-based Space Services, his private rocket-launching company, would soon begin sending aloft the cremated remains of customers who want to be buried in space. He said that for a fee of $3,900, the deceased would be reduced to an ounce or less of ash and placed in a 2-in. by 5/8-in. aluminum capsule. A drum containing 5,000 of the capsules would then be shot into orbit in a Conestoga II rocket...
...prospects for the American economy. The tremor hit the London Stock Exchange, driving it down 27.3 on Thursday, its ninth greatest drop. In Ontario, the Toronto Stock Exchange dropped 2.4%, its largest one-day fall in 6 1/2 years. The day was "wild and woolly -- one of those rocket sessions," said Ron Woods of Merit Investment of Toronto. There was also a surge of selling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and even a fistfight. Two young traders punched each other as they fought to execute their sell orders...
...year-old grandson. The President's armor- plated Mercedes was the fourth in a five-car caravan. Suddenly, an oncoming car pulling a small camping trailer swerved across the road, blocking the presidential motorcade. "Intense firing began," Pinochet later recalled, "with machine guns, rifles and bazookas or possibly rocket launchers and some hand grenades." The barrage, which came both from the trailer and the surrounding hillsides, cut down the two motorcycle riders who led the President's caravan. A rocket hit the second car, which exploded in flames...
...retention of fluid in the tissues. Indeed, the large doses of the substance required to supplement the LAK cells caused at least one test subject to die of lung failure. LAK cells, it turned out, are primitive weapons, difficult to direct at a single target. They are like a "rocket that just goes off," says Dr. Ellis Reinherz, of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as opposed to "one with a guidance system." Scientists had long known of cells in the body with such guidance systems but assumed the cells to be either too few in number or too weak...
...rocket reportedly carried two satellites on a dual-purpose mission: to detect and track an Aries rocket launched an hour and a half later from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and to test a system for destroying enemy satellites. Both tests were a success, the Pentagon said...