Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's 100th manned launch, the two men, Robert ("Hoot") Gibson and Anatoli Solovyev, along with four other U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, were both on board. Their mission was a more ambitious reprise of the earlier Apollo-Soyuz flight: rendezvous and dock with the Russian space station Mir, orbiting 245 miles above the earth...
Japanese officials tightened security in Tokyo's trains and subways in the wake of yesterday's discovery of cyanide bombs in two stations that could have killed thousands of commuters. Bombs were found in Tokyo's Kayabacho and Shinjuku stations, and irritating fumes were reported in two others. The devices were discovered before their timers reached the moment of detonation. A similar device was found in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest, last month. Police immediately suspected that theAum Shinrikyo cult was behind the new attacks,but cult leaders denied any involvement...
...SEEMED AS ROUTINE AS PUNCHING UP a favorite station on the car radio--the simple push of a button. But this time it would kill them. Before lifting off from southern Turkey, bound for northern Iraq on April 14 of last year, the pilots of two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters activated the "friend-or-foe" system designed to identify them to other U.S. aircraft. They set it to frequency 42. That was the setting prescribed in the top-secret "air-tasking order" they received from the Air Force each day they ventured into the part of Iraq policed...
...space stationin a celebratory mood. Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could have brought his wife along. When the two giant spacecraft undock on Tuesday, two of the MIR cosmonauts will film the maneuver from a small Soyuz vehicle nearby. Atlantis...
...docking, 245 miles above central Asia, was to test a technique needed for building an international space station beginning...