Word: stationed
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...computer is up and running again. But this isn't like booting up a Mac; the three-man crew still have to spend some time reacquainting it with each of the station's automated systems...
...power brownouts--U.S. space officials have been under pressure to stop putting astronauts aboard, a privilege costing NASA about $472 million over five years. These funds have helped bail out the strapped Russian Space Agency, which NASA wants to keep as a major player in the upcoming International Space Station. But the Russian-American partnership is in trouble on Capitol Hill, and only last week presidential science adviser John Gibbons re-emphasized that a decision to send Foale's replacement up in late September won't be made until it's clear Mir has enough electricity for the slate...
Then, having frightened his last fare witless--he drives as wildly as he talks--Jerry pulls up in front of an apartment house, trains his binoculars on a window behind which a woman, obviously above his station and equally obviously a love object, is exercising, and we get really nervous. For we seem to be entering Travis Bickle country, an essentially inimitable place that one wants to visit only once in a lifetime...
...stunned by the crass reference to the Russian space station Mir as a "Rube Goldberg contraption" [NOTEBOOK, July 28]. Mir was built and has operated on a virtual shoestring for more than twice as long as intended by its original design specifications. While it is not sophisticated by U.S. standards, it has made valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. By comparison, America's aerospace program has been historically bloated, redundant and rife with its own spectacular failures, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo 13, failed Vanguard launches and, yes, the unfortunate deaths in the Challenger disaster. I applaud...
MOSCOW: Mir is adrift once more after a failure of the space station's main computer. The systems shut-down occurred while a cargo ship was docking. Now the troubled space station's solar panels are no longer pointed at the sun, leaving its rickety body wobbling and unoriented and its crew in the dark...