Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane taxied to its gate and three uniformed policemen stomped aboard, passengers heading for the exit were ordered back to their seats by the crew. One of the passengers was TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who had just finished reporting a story in the Indonesian archipelago and then, by prearrangement, had detoured to Taipei to accompany Aquino on the final leg of his homecoming flight. As Burton recounted it in a file to TIME this Sunday...
Certainly Mission Control had no problems with the five-member crew, the largest yet to fly on a shuttle. Barely a day after their flaming on-time liftoff, Crippen and company set out two commercial communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian. By week's end the satellites had completed their long six-day climbs to "geostationary" orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. "That's four for four," Ride announced proudly, tallying up the number of commercial satellites successfully launched by the shuttle...
...satellite automatically fired its booster 45 minutes later and began the long 140-hour climb to a permanent "geostationary" parking place 22,300 miles above the equator. Next day, the Challenger crew was scheduled to repeat the performance with a satellite called Palapa B (or Fruit of Effort in Indonesian) that will serve as a communications link for Indonesia's islands...
...press handout for the upcoming flight of the Challenger, scheduled for Saturday morning, June 18. NASA'S flacks spend most of their energy detailing much more mundane aspects of the seventh shuttle mission: that it will carry aloft two more communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian; that the five-man (oops!) -member crew will be the largest yet launched in any space vehicle; and that the 100-ton craft will glide to a landing for the first time on a new three-mile strip at Florida's Kennedy Space Center rather than on the Western deserts, where...
Before the Harvard visitors came, 'Indonesian Ph.D.'s graduated without the slightest idea of how to do anything... We're starting to teach them to think well...