Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randy Taylor's rocket from the right point rebounded to Crimson Ken Code at the left point. Code sent the puck in with a clang to tie the score...
...Force, which will operate Slick Six, plans to fly up to ten missions annually. Another point in Vandenberg's favor: shuttles will be launched due south and will fly over Antarctica as well as vast stretches of water, regions where the craft's solid-fuel rocket boosters and external tank can be safely jettisoned...
...round of violence began when Iraqi aircraft launched sudden missile and rocket attacks on seven Iranian towns, killing, according to Iran, more than 100 people. Iraq then sent its aircraft on a bombing raid over Iran's $3.5 billion petrochemical complex at Bandar-Khomeini, on the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, and later claimed to have scored "successful and effective hits...
...entirely erase the gloom cast over the mission by the loss of two sophisticated communications satellites. At week's end, NASA still could not explain why Western Union's Westar VI and Indonesia's Palapa-B2 had failed to achieve orbit, except to say that their rocket motors had apparently shut down prematurely before completing their scheduled 85-sec. "burns." The prime suspects are the bell-shaped nozzles from which the boosters' flaming gases are expelled. McDonnell Douglas, builder of the rockets, is assembling a board of inquiry to look into the twin failures, which left...
...aerospace community. Unless the problem with the little boosters, called PAMs (for payload-assist modules), is resolved soon, some upcoming lift-offs may have to be postponed. PAMs are scheduled to be used for satellite launches in May as the upper stage of a conventional Delta rocket and in June during the maiden voyage of the third shuttle, Discovery. Insurance brokers are now warning of rising premiums, if such policies remain available, for future satellite launches. The loss of Westar and Palapa will cost underwriters $180 million. Also NASA could lose business if concern about the reliability of American rocketry...