Word: countdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surrounding this mission has stirred up more tension and anticipation throughout NASA than the space agency has seen in a long time. Says NASA administrator Daniel Goldin: "We are excited about doing very noble, risky things because that's what NASA is all about." As the mission moves toward countdown, the proud organization that put men on the moon looks forward, with fingers firmly crossed, to recapturing its past glory...
World Cup Countdown...
Approximately 200 students of the 926 in the class attempted to slide in during the last half-hour before the countdown reached zero and their grades dropped by a third of a full grade, says "Justice" teaching fellow Sally Gibbons...
...efforts to educate the sunbathing public about skin cancer. The Food and Drug Administration has not yet weighed in on the controversy. Last week, however, the agency asked sunscreen manufacturers to put warnings on their lotions about the harmful effects of overexposure to the sun. And so, as the countdown proceeds to the annual Memorial Day migration out of doors, the untanned masses must rely, once again, on their own best judgment. A close look at the evidence suggests that sunscreens are neither the absolute villain the Garlands make them out to be nor the perfect safeguard that beachgoers want...
...last Thursday morning was neither star nor planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve got stuck. Columbia is still sitting on the ground at Cape Canaveral...