Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight last Thursday morning began just as flawlessly, lifting off about half a second early. Carrying a four-man crew, double the number on previous missions, the spacecraft remained visible for more than 3 min. as it rose on its pillars of fire into a cloudless sky over Cape Canaveral, undeterred by 90-m.p.h. winds. On the last mission, in July, Columbia's big strap-on solid-fuel booster rockets sank into the sea. This time, after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery...
...more detailed imagery has come from another type of "remote-sensing" satellite called Landsat. The first of these NASA observatories in the sky, which can "see" in a variety of colors, some of them beyond the range of human vision, was launched in 1973. Since then three more have been lofted, the latest in July. Instead of traveling along the equator, as do most communications satellites, Landsat 4 circles the earth once every 99 min. via the polar regions. Thus as the planet turns underneath the satellite, Landsat's ever vigilant electronic eyes see a different patch of earth...
...Indian Ocean, relayed programs on such topics as farming and family planning from New Delhi to millions of villagers. AT56 was eventually parked over the Pacific, where it was a vital communications link for the far-flung islands of Micronesia. But not all countries welcome the messages from the sky. The Soviet Union and its East bloc allies, as well as many Third World countries, oppose any transmissions from space not authorized by them. Presumably, they object to programming with a Western political accent...
...Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have sprung from the soil and descended from the sky simultaneously. He must be both the struggle and the oppression...
...were sky high after that. I was sure we were going to win, even while we stood on the sideline and they were moving down the field. When they missed that first field goal, I ran on the field and just hugged the first guy I saw. I don't even know who it was. It was just like a dream come true...