Word: pluto
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...contrast to the almost uninterrupted acclaim heaped on the agency in the years that followed its establishment in 1958. With virtually unlimited funds, sound management and inspired creativity, NASA soon overcame the Soviet Union's head start, sending brilliantly conceived and increasingly sophisticated unmanned craft to every planet but Pluto and landing men on the moon...
Ruben Blades is losing his patience. Dressed in a flashy magenta jacket and a black narrow-brimmed hat, he fidgets with his breakfast at Pluto's restaurant, a greasy spoon in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. He is on his third cup of coffee when Spike Lee walks in and takes a seat at the counter. "Giant, see the paper?" Blades says, holding up a copy of the New York Post...