Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radiation, says NASA's Michael Bungo, "is going to be a showstopper." Once beyond the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which protects terrestrial life from most lethal radiation, crew members would be vulnerable to cosmic rays. These highly energetic particles travel through space at close to the speed of light and can produce hazardous secondary radiation when they strike atoms in the aluminum walls of a spacecraft. During a single Mars mission, says Frank Sulzman, chief of NASA's space-medicine and biology branch, unprotected astronauts could receive an unacceptably high dose of radiation -- more than is now allowed...
...first, it seemed like a triumph of high technology. Supersophisticated radar aboard the U.S.S. Vincennes picked up the airplane almost as soon as it took off from the Iranian airport of Bandar Abbas, on the shores of the Persian Gulf. Within moments the radar received enough information about altitude, speed and flight path for Captain Will Rogers III to reach a conclusion: the plane was a hostile fighter flying an attack pattern. An IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe) signal bounced back by the approaching aircraft seemed to confirm that conclusion. Two missiles launched by the Vincennes were electronically guided precisely...
...same time, he began to develop a ravenous ambition. At 17 he got into elite Williams College in Massachusetts. Grandma scraped together $200 for clothes. "She knew there were a lot of guys from St. Paul's and Andover, and that I ought to dress up to speed," he recalls...
...computer modems: the great world is ahum with high-speed messengers, helping everybody hurtle through his wheedling and dealing at record pace. Sometimes it seems the only people left lurking about that most primitive example of communications hardware, the mailbox, are the creators of that quaintest of software, the novel...
...when they go to Atlanta next week, they should have no trouble communicating. The Democratic National Convention promises to be the most thoroughly automated political gathering ever held, a million-dollar showcase of advanced technology, featuring such wizardry as computer terminals controlled by a touch of the screen, high-speed electronic mailboxes, computerized diagrams of hotel meeting rooms and even a smidgen of artificial intelligence. Says James Sterling, the Democrats' telecommunications director: "This is without a doubt the most high-tech convention in history...