Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solar Hamburg...
...reminded that nature prevails and that things haven't changed too much. Other things don't happen quite so often but do give us something to look forward to. A whole generation awaits the 1986 return of Halley's Comet from its 75 year trip around the solar system. A little closer to home every four years Harold E. Stassen runs for president...
...month delay in the flight because of a faulty booster-rocket nozzle, Spacelab remains an instructive example of international cooperation in a difficult area of technology. It also may be a prelude to more ambitious undertakings. Planners are already talking of giving Spacelab an array of solar panels so that it can generate its own electricity from sunlight. It would thus be able to float freely in space between shuttle missions. Initially, the unmoored laboratory would be unoccupied, acting simply as a remote-controlled observatory for scientists on earth. Eventually, more modules could be added with on-board living facilities...
Belatedly, Bignone tried to defuse the explosive situation. After an appeals court acted on the government's request that the case against the central bank president be dropped, González del Solar was freed and flown back to Buenos Aires aboard the President's personal F-27 jet. Bignone meanwhile had gone on national TV to reassure citizens. Gonzalez del Solar's imprisonment and the looming default, he said, were "inconveniences everyone knows about...
NASA listed only 27 minor hitches or anomalies during the eighth mission of its Space Transportation System. Among them was a leaky valve in the shuttle's million-dollar space toilet, a source of trouble on four previous flights. In addition, solar panels on India's Insat-1B, a $45 million communications satellite released by Challenger, failed to open all the way, threatening to render the satellite as useless as Insat-1A, launched last year, which also developed panel problems. Still, said Mission Evaluation Manager Joseph E. Mechelay, "none of these things should affect STS-9." That flight...