Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally, NASA had proposed in 1968 the $2.6 billion orbiting laboratory program. At that time extra rockets capable of keeping Skylab in space almost indefinitely were considered. The craft's ability to stay in orbit would be reinforced, if necessary, by astronauts transported up to it in a convenient space shuttle, then also on the NASA drawing boards. But under budgetary pressures both vehicles were simplified?and both developed unanticipated technical problems. So when Skylab's orbit began to slip, there was no shuttle to come to its rescue...
NASA has no intention of letting Apollo 11's birthday pass unnoticed. In Washington, Armstrong, Aldrin and their stay-in-orbit partner Michael Collins will be reunited for a round of ceremonies, capped by a replay of the original moon walk late at night at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. In Texas another old Apollo hand, Christopher Kraft, the director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, will preside at space-day ceremonies; he will open a temporary post office to cancel space-commemorative stamps for philatelists. At the Kennedy Space Center, a giant...
...will be with the moon. When we go there again, it will be in vehicles that will make the Saturn 5-for all it's staggering complexity and its 150 million horsepower-look like a clumsy, inefficient dinosaur of the early space age. And this time, we will stay...
That will not be for a while. Junta Member Ramirez estimates that the provisional government will stay in power for two to five years, "the time it takes to establish the basis of a genuine democratic development in Nicaragua." Most of the junta's other prescriptions for the country are vague, save for one pledge repeated over and over by rebel leaders: the lands and holdings of the Somoza family in Nicaragua, estimated at up to $500 million, will be confiscated and administered by the new government...
...changes in tone, emphasis and operating style." Given his age and Graham's habit of replacing executives unexpectedly, Bernstein may turn out to be a caretaker appointee-"like bringing Bob Lemon in to replace Billy Martin," in the words of one Newsweek hand. Says Bernstein: "I expect to stay a long time...