Word: spaceflight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles from Earth last week, a small, unmanned ship named Deep Space 1 swooped to within 10 miles of newly named asteroid Braille. The dramatic encounter marked by far the closest approach ever to an asteroid by a spacecraft and helped validate new and previously untried systems for unmanned spaceflight...
...NASA does not share their confidence: if the problems continue after Linenger's return to Earth in mid-May, the U.S. space agency says, it won't send up another American to work with the Russian crew. Unfounded hysteria, counters Blagov, who blames the agency's "over-reaction" on spaceflight disasters in 1967 and 1986 that killed 10 Americans. "Our record here has been far less threatening," concludes Blagov. Maybe. While the Russian space program claims only two deaths in its 36 years of operation, tight-lipped secrecy among military space program officials is thought to mask dozens of other...
...from a scientist's point of view, the current manned program is unjustified and wasteful. But many of Freedom's advocates argue that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is not what manned spaceflight is all about. No, it's about humanity transcending its current planetary limits. And it's about astronauts sailing through the blackness of space and walking on the surface of new worlds, just as Christopher Columbus did half a millennium...
...space station for us to build. It will perform world-class life- science studies that are needed to explore space. If it is killed, it will totally destroy the balance in NASA between manned and unmanned exploration. Again, this attack on the station was an attack on manned spaceflight. If Freedom is killed, it will set back space exploration -- both manned and with robots -- at least a generation. We've got to walk through this door to find out more about the effect of space on man before we can continue exploring the universe...