Word: endeavour
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...space shuttle Endeavour prepares for its return to earth, researchers at Harvard Medical School eagerly await the data of an experiment they designed to test the effects of weightlessness on bone and muscle tissue...
...from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage in idle chitchat, but rather to query Ms. Werner about her latest artistic endeavour...
FIFTEEN MINUTES: Would you care to tell us a bit about your latest artistic endeavour...
Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, just five days after the shuttle Endeavour returned from the daring mission to repair the Hubble telescope, scientists secretly put the refurbished instrument to its first test. They ordered the Hubble to point toward a bright star and beam its image to Earth. Anxiously, they crowded around a computer screen at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as they waited for the picture to appear. The Endeavour astronauts had installed the telescope's corrective lenses and other equipment perfectly. But it wasn't certain that the devices would actually work...
...criticism of NASA, there are still plenty of people who believe that humanity has a basic need to explore the final frontier. Said Goldin on the eve of Endeavour's launch: "This is what we need to be doing. NASA exists to do bold, noble and innovative things. You can't make progress unless you take risks." The television audiences that watched the astronauts perform last week were much smaller than those that watched Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon in 1969. But even the most jaded viewer had to be inspired by the sight...