Word: spaceflight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discovery, an American flag on its left wing,was making its seventh spaceflight...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Discovery's five astronauts, anxious to break an agonizing 32-month drought in American spaceflight, were "elated to be headed for space" yesterday as the overnight countdown began for a midmorning launch today...
...view, a joint mission might help draw the U.S. and the Soviet Union closer together. He dismisses fears that such a mission would risk giving away U.S. technology to the Soviets, pointing out that the Soviets are a decade ahead of the U.S. in several areas of spaceflight. "Technology transfer," Sagan concludes, "is likely to flow both ways...
Both American and Soviet behavioral scientists have begun to investigate small-group dynamics, which are likely to assume considerable significance during extended spaceflight. "There are always minor irritations involved in working with other people," says Psychologist Clay Foushee, of NASA's Ames Research Center. "Normally, these are not a problem because you can get up and move away. The trouble occurs when you can't leave a situation." That trouble can become catastrophic. Long Antarctic expeditions, which involve small groups isolated for months, have been marred by fights and occasional violence...
...ride that opened in January 1987 at Disneyland. The ride employs the technology of flight simulators, the devices used for training pilots and astronauts. Hydraulically powered, the StarSpeeder 3000 cabin shakes, rattles and rolls its 40 passengers at angles up to 35 degrees as they watch a 4 1/2-minute spaceflight film by Star Wars Creator George Lucas...