Sally Ride Earns Spaceflight Break in 1983 Launch
Shuttle mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral as Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. NASA stressed teamwork while colleagues Crippen and Hawley praised her performance. Valentina Tereshkova had previously set the female spaceflight milestone seventy plus.
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Dakar
Senegal
North Africa
Ms. Ride
Steven Hawley
Sally
Valentina Tereshkova
NASA
Listen in on shuttle talks from Cape Canaveral
NASA announces a pay phone line for listening to Mission Control conversations with space shuttle astronauts. Dial 900-410-6272 in the United States with a 50 cent first minute and 35 cents for each additional minute plus tax. Overseas callers use 307-410-6272. Canada Mexico Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are excluded.
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Cape Canaveral, Fla
American Telegraph & Telephone Co
Mission Control
Canada
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
NASA
Shuttle Challenger mission set for six day Cape flight
Cape Canaveral will host the seventh space shuttle flight a six day mission deploying two communications satellites and testing a runway landing near the launch site. Commander Robert Crippen leads the crew including Rick Hauck Sally Ride John Fabian and Norman Thagard with Thagard observing experiments and space sickness studies. The plan covers satellite deployments from Telesat Canada and Indonesia SPAS payload operations robot arm tests rendezvous radar and jet plume measurements ending with a Pacific to Atlantic reentry and Kennedy Space Center landing.
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Kennedy Space Center
Sally Ride
Robert Crippen
John Fabian
Norm Thagard
Rick Hauck
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Norman Fhagard
Thagard
Challenger
Hauck
Crippen
Telesat of Canada
Ms. Ride
Fabian
South Atlantic
Ride
Crippan
Ms Ride
SPAS
Hide
Earth
Mission Control
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Con Ed workers go on strike amid wage dispute
Nearly 16,000 Con Ed unionized employees walk off the job in New York as Local 12 rejects the final offer. Management says 6,000 executives will cover duties to keep electric, gas, and steam service uninterrupted and no Indian Point shutdown is planned. The action coincides with a separate two week strike at Orange & Rockland Utilities.
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New York
Consolidated Edison Co
Utility
Con Ed
Orange & Rockland Utilities Co
Long Island
Utility Workers Union
Hezekiah Brown
Con Fdl
Westchester County
New York City
Staten Island
Martin Gitten
Indian Point
First MX test an success at Vandenberg AFB
The MX missile completed a 4700 mile maiden flight over the Pacific despite peace activist opposition. Unarmed 71 feet tall, weighing 195000 pounds, it rose from Vandenberg at 7 10 pm and dropped six dummy warheads near Kwajalein Atoll. Officials called it exactly as expected after a weather delay.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
America
Pacific
California
Kwajalein Atoll
Air Force
Author Jackie Collins wins 40 million lawsuit
An all female jury in Manhattan awarded Jackie Collins 40 million dollars against Flynt Distributing Co. for mis identifying her in a photograph as a naked woman at an orgy in Adelina magazine. The publisher Larry Flynt’s company faced the verdict after a court order to halt the May 1980 issue’s circulation.
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New York
Jackie Collins
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
Flynt Distributing Co, Inc
Adelina
Larry Flynt
Hustler
Miss Collins
Joan Collins
Roy Grutman
Ginna Plant Prepares Second Full Scale Emergency Drill
Albany reports the Robert E. Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester will stage a second full scale emergency drill Wednesday. Monroe and Wayne county officials join state and federal monitors from NRC and FEMA to test plans required after the Three Mile Island accident. The January 1982 test preceded a real gas release at Ginna days later.
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Rochester
Monroe
Wayne
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Three Mile Island
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