Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move the marble stones, some of which weigh as much as twelve tons, Korres plans to use a French-built arch crane with dangling giant forceps. When work begins (perhaps as soon as December), the crane's silhouette will stretch skyward from the Acropolis, dwarfing the monuments. Its first task: setting straight a carved column at the temple's southeast corner, which has tilted precariously since a 1981 earthquake moved its base by more than one inch. When the crane is idle, its upper portions will fold down, out of sight of the residents and visitors...
Ride, 32, a physicist by training from Encino, Calif., seemed almost born to the Brotherhood of the Right Stuff. She said little as the shuttle smoothly climbed skyward, except to take issue kiddingly with Bob Crippen, 45, Challenger's veteran commander, who was making his second shuttle flight. Said she: "He keeps saying there's nothing exciting happening. I'm not sure I'd go along with that...
...points serenely skyward from a ridge dotted with apple orchards, the 84-ft.-wide dish appears to be just another space-age antenna. But last week, the Harvard radio telescope, 30 miles northwest of Boston, became the center of a champagne inaugural and worldwide scientific attention. As colleagues and reporters clustered around him inside the observatory's control room, Harvard Physicist Paul Horowitz tapped a few keys on a computer terminal. A minute or so later, a jumble of jagged lines flickered onto a video monitor. They represented the random squawks and beeps of the universe that had just...
Ever since last November, the new space shuttle Challenger has been perched proudly on its Florida pad, pointing skyward like an anxious eagle. Last week NASA officials gloomily conceded that their $1 billion bird may have to sit in its nest a while longer. The latest delay involves the most serious problem yet encountered with the troubled Challenger: a basic defect in design that requires overhauling all three of the main engines. Unless the flaw can be quickly corrected, the problem could create a horrendous backup of civilian and military satellites waiting to be carried aloft and add millions...
...July 2, Larry Walters, 33, a TV production company driver, donned a parachute and strapped himself into an aluminum lawn chair to which he had attached 45 helium-filled weather balloons. From a San Pedro, Calif., backyard, he drifted three miles skyward, where he was spotted by two passenger jetliners. Walters shot out ten of the balloons with a BB pistol and floated down to earth after accumulating 90 minutes of flying time. Said he: "It was something I had to do to achieve inner peace...