The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

to the planet on August 25, 1989. Voyager 2 discov- ered the Great Dark Spot, a hole in Neptune’s cloud cover; spotted six new m ...

ancy scrubbedColumbia’s launch, but on April 12 thespace shuttle was successfully launched. For thirty-six orbits, Young and Cri ...

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Space shuttle program The Eighties in America Space Shuttle Missions in the 1980’s Mission Name Dates Astronauts STS-1Colu ...

KSC, theChallengerwas forced to divert to Edwards Air Force Base after six days. STS-8 lifted off on August 30, performing the s ...

naut Bruce McCandless II flew it nearly one hun- dred meters from the space shuttle. Each satellite’s PAM failed, stranding thes ...

quired modification, which would have halted flight operations. 1986 Missions and the ChallengerDisaster Colum- bia’s six-day ST ...

spectacular, resulting in large budgets and huge box-office blockbusters. Beginning in the late 1890’s, the father of special ef ...

nues were higher than ever. In 1989, these revenues totaled $5.03 billion. The industry also reaped prof- its from movie-related ...

novel by the African American au- thor Alice Walker. The film traced the devastating effects of segrega- tion and employed an al ...

The Olympics and the Miracle on Ice The brightest moment of the 1980’s might very well have taken place just two months into the ...

one man—Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, who in 1983 was drafted by the then Baltimore Colts, a team for which Elway refused ...

and ten rebounds per game for the Boston Celtics. Bird’s impact was felt much more in the standings: During the 1978-1979 season ...

One of the best books to help explain the growth of the Olympics, as well as the positive and nega- tive elements that are now a ...

in four of the resulting logs to be shipped overseas. The University of Oregon’s Western Natural Re- sources Law Clinic (WNRLC), ...

about themselves. The title song of the album told the story of an impoverished American forced to fight in the Vietnam War and ...

Standards and accountability in education Definition Systems designed objectively to measurement success and failure in studen ...

they issued the first national standards for English, mathematics, science, history, and geography, as well as rules for standar ...

moved and replaced by audience voting. Winners of the Vocalist, Fashion Model/Spokesperson, and Comedy categories were awarded $ ...

several successful movies starring theNext Generation cast members. It also led to a revival ofStar Trekmer- chandise, such as a ...

In 1982, Starbucks hired Howard Schultz as its di- rector of retail operations and marketing. In the spring of 1983, the company ...