Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leave TV time alone. No mandates. It is good for campaigns to have to purchase television time because it means their message has received some degree of validation from financial supporters. The government must not tax TV-station owners to pay for elections. Democracy will march on without the aid of a few free political infomercials...
...post the pictures as soon as they became available recorded a staggering 100 million hits on Friday alone. The landing capped off a busy week in which space exploration once again energized the world: Russia launched a cargo ship carrying repair equipment for the beleaguered crew of the space station Mir, and NASA's shuttle Columbia successfully took off for a long-delayed mission...
...instruments and cameras of its own, could function for as little as a month or as long as a year. Even after it winks out, it will continue to serve an important symbolic function. On Saturday NASA announced that it would rename the spent lander the Carl Sagan Memorial Station...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: While Russian cosmonauts may be able to fix the power-thirsty Mir space station next week, repairing the growing cracks in the US-Russian Mir program may prove to be a far more difficult task, reports TIME's Dick Thompson. "While NASA insists that meaningful work can be achieved, many people believe that the only meaningful work that can be done now is learning survival skills in a leaking lifeboat. These critics are arguing more loudly than ever that the US-Mir program is not a science program at all, but a transparent tool of foreign policy designed...
...most of the world was poring over the stunning pictures from Mars, the crew of the Mir received some good news of their own as a Progress supply ship stocked with repair equipment finally docked with the crippled space station. Cosmonauts needed the supplies for the repair work they'll do during a spacewalk July 17, when they will reconnect power lines with the station's damaged Spektr module. Also delivered today: the world's worst airline food, some oxygen, fuel and a toothbrush for American astronaut Michael Foale...