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That trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’t bothered by his loudness ( )by his lack of talent.
( ) to space travelers is high acceleration or deceleration forces.
Following the guidelines for speaking and voting established by the book Robert's Rules of Order, ( )during the meeting.
The tenacious families feuded for generations, and inimical feelings are still fixed in their( ).
Despite a tendency to be overtly ( ), the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
Space shuttle Endeavor pulled up to the international space station and docked Wednesday, kicking off almost two weeks of demanding construction work.Before the late-night linkup. Endeavor’s commander, Dominic Gorie, (1)the shuttle through a 360-degree backflip to allow for full photographic surveillance.It’s one of the many safety-related (2) put in place following the Columbia tragedy in 2003.The space (3 ) crew used cameras with high-powered zoom leases to photograph Endeavor (4) nose to tail, especially all the thermal tiles on (5)belly. The pictures—as many as 300一will be scrutinized by (6) on the ground to see whether the shuttle suffered any damage (7) Tuesday’s launch.Something, maybe a bird, may have struck Endeavor’s nose (8) or ten seconds after liftoff. The launch images are inconclusive so (9) • NASA expects that images collected during the astronauts’ laser inspection of the nose and wings will reveal any damage, if it’s there.LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission (10) team, said the launch video suggests to some that Endeavor’s nose took a hit. Still photos, on the other hand, show no impact.“It’s too early to speculate.” Cain said late Wednesday afternoon. “The (11) has got a lot of work to do on that as well as other debris items.”Also, right at liftoff, something (12) to fall off the tail end of the shuttle, possibly part of a thermal tile. Later, at the 83-second mark, a piece of debris, (13) fuel-tank foam insulation, appeared to miss the shuttle’s right wing.“There’s nothing that stands out in terms of things that we’re worried about.” Cain said. The photographs preceding the docking will (14) to NASA’s arsenal of data for determining whether Endeavor will be able to re-enter safely at the end of its 16-day (15), the longest space station mission ever by a shuttle. All the analysis will take several days.Bell chimes heralded Endeavor’s arrival just (16) midnight. “Endeavor arriving,” space station commander Peggy Whitson called out as she rang the vessel’s bell.“Peggy, that’s the sweetest bell I’ve ever heard. Thank you very much.” Gorie replied. Mission Control praised Gorie for his expert (17) . Besides seven astronauts, one of (18)Japanese, Endeavor holds the first piece of Japan’s new space station lab, Kibo, which is Japanese (19) “hope.” The storage compartment will be attached to the orbiting complex on Friday; it’s temporary location until the lab arrives in May.Endeavor also is (20)a two-armed Canadian robot, named Dextre that will be assembled during the first three spacewalks of the mission, as well as a new space station resident. Garrett Reisman.In all, five spacewalks are planned. a new space station resident.