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From the very start, the mission seemed to have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7-ton cylinder...
...extra-cautious NASA to send the Discovery on an additional orbit and delay its return by some 90 minutes. The touchdown was a bit rough: Discovery blew a tire as it rolled to a stop on the Kennedy Space Center's three-mile-long runway. Upon examination, the ship proved to have suffered more external damage than any previous shuttle--a dinner-plate-size hole near its wingtip and damage to 123 protective tiles. NASA will carefully assess the damage, but has no plans to cancel or postpone future scheduled missions...
...days, NASA officials at Mission Control debated whether to attempt repairs. Hughes engineers theorized that the satellite might have failed because a hooklike "trigger" that projected from its side was not fully engaged. NASA officials agreed, but would not permit any of the Discovery team to leave the ship to work on the crippled satellite. The officials decided it was too dangerous for astronauts to perform unrehearsed work between objects as large as the rotating LEASAT and the shuttle, especially since the satellite's rockets were fueled...
Danger and intrigue have brought Dirk and best pal Al Giordino (Zahn) to Africa: Pitt believes that he has finally found an iron-side battle ship which disappeared after the American Civil War (yeah, I know, in Africa—I’m still trying to figure that one out). Here’s the kicker: the legendary ship is rumored to be carrying a cargo of lost gold...
Britney and her posse of what look like sloppily spray-painted mannequins from a run-down Urban Outfitters basement transition from a preposterously fake space-ship to a cloud-riding pink hummer to a club filled to the brim with a doped-up entourage of anorexic Hollywood dancer-waiters. I was, at first, reminded of “Dirrty”, but, after looking back, I realized that, by comparison, Christina’s video is a beautiful allegorical representation of the struggles of the working class...