Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think about it. For all the references to thinking--I don't think so, no-brainer, clueless, all the brain surgeons and rocket scientists you don't have to be, and the injunction on some New York City street signs, "Don't even think of parking here"--isn't the real message of these phrases simply, Don't even think...
...certain where the water came from, though a collision with an icy comet is likely. Just as important as the origin of the ice is its future. "Settlers could break the water into oxygen and hydrogen and turn them into rocket fuel and air," suggests Dunston. And as for the possibility of ice-dwelling organisms? Not likely. Water may help sustain life, but at nearly 400[degrees] below, it couldn't get started in the first place...
...probe crashed harmlessly in the South Pacific. But don't stop looking up yet: the earth's skies remain heavily laden with space junk. In the next 60 days, the U.S. Space Command estimates, four orbiting objects possibly large enough to survive re-entry will come tumbling down--two rocket bodies (one U.S., one Russian), a Russian payload platform and a Chinese satellite. Don't worry. So far, 16,000 human-made objects have re-entered the atmosphere in the nearly 40 years the agency has tracked them. "Almost all have burned up during re-entry," says Colonel Marc Dinerstein...
...40th minute, junior Keren Gudeman sent a rocket to the lower left corner of the goal which UMass keeper Danielle Dion just managed to turn aside...
DIED. RICHARD PORTER, 83, electrical engineer who helped lead America into space; on a train traveling from Washington to New York City. Porter oversaw the first U.S. satellite launch in 1958, a project that had its seeds in a perilous 1945 trip he made to Germany to recruit pioneering rocket scientists including Wernher von Braun...