Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stupidity, narrow-mindedness and indifference were even greater enemies, just as Jan Scruggs found they were in Viet Nam. He was 19 when a rocket grenade exploded behind him in a clearing near Xuan Loc on May 28, 1969. His anguish will heal finally, and maybe the nation's pain be eased too, when ground is broken in a few days on the Washington Mall for the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. Fifty men who fought in the war will each turn a spade of earth on a spot of hallowed ground 75 yards from Constitution Avenue. The site...
...rocket named Ariane ends the U.S. and Soviet space monopoly...
...recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch satellites for any and all customers, including some who had already booked space on the U.S. shuttle...
Ariane (the French name for the Cretan princess of Greek mythology whose thread helped Theseus escape from the Labyrinth) took nearly a decade to develop. It is not only a triumph of European technology, but a stellar example of something much more rare: real international cooperation. The big rocket's first and third stages were built in France, the second in West Germany. Britain developed much of the computer software. Contributions came from Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands and, in fact, all of the founding partners in this billion-dollar collaboration. Ariane's first commercial flight is scheduled...
...first came on a rocket shot form defenseman Bruce Milton at the point, at 8:29 of the opening stanza, only nine seconds after Harvard's Jim Turner went off for a hold B.U. took a 2-0 lead to the locker room...