Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Russians may end up doing far more. One serious obstacle to building Freedom is that it could take as many as 18 shuttle flights, each one risking the lives of astronauts, to get the necessary construction materials into space. Using the Russians' unmanned Energia booster, the most powerful rocket in the world, could reduce the number of launches and greatly decrease the risk. The Russians are already fabricating parts for their next space station, Mir-2. The new station could be used as a model for Freedom, or the two could be combined into one large unit...
...worries me, because you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see this means there will be fewer retirements.. and this is going to diminish the number of appointments of people of color and women," says McCarthy...
According to a new study by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, the Russian President and Defense Minister must jointly transmit an order to fire missiles to the uniformed chiefs of the general staff and the rocket forces, who both hold the launch codes. This Russian form of group responsibility depends on the military's obedience to political leaders. If Yeltsin was ever forced out of office, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi would be his legal successor; if Yeltsin refused to accept dismissal, which of the two would the generals choose to obey? Whatever they might decide, the ability to launch...
...show videotapes of hundreds of fish floating belly up on the brackish waters. Emma Nicholson, a British M.P. who has made three trips to the marshes, says the inhabitants can no longer sustain themselves. In the past eight months, more than 350 villages have been destroyed by shell and rocket fire. "The only way to live in the marshes today is to remain alone and move every day," said a recent escapee...
WOULD YOU PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING YOU don't need, don't want and won't use? If you're an American taxpayer, you may have no choice. Israel has staged a successful rocket launch with its ARROW anti-tactical missile system, a feat that will help bolster arguments that U.S. funding of the Israeli / project should continue. To strengthen Israel's security, the U.S. has spent $126 million on the Arrow and plans to pick up two-thirds of the projected $322 million in future development costs. The U.S. has no plans to purchase the system...