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1979 and launch
* 1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters ( known as a boilerplate configuration ) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.
Also, Columbia was the female symbol of the U. S. After construction, the orbiter arrived at Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979, to prepare for its first launch.
Columbia was originally scheduled to lift off in late 1979, however the launch date was delayed by problems with both the SSME components, as well as the thermal protection system ( TPS ).
Immediately following Skylab's launch, Pad A at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 was deactivated, and construction proceeded to modify it for the Space Shuttle program, originally targeting a maiden launch in June 1979.
After six years White left 20th Century in 1979 to launch his own label, Unlimited Gold, with CBS / Columbia Records.
By the time she had completed her military service in 1979, Haza had matured as a singer and was ready to launch a solo career.
Also, Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell's character from the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, fictitiously auditions for a position on SportsCenter just days before the network's launch in 1979, and fails miserably.
Using Atlas-Centaur launch vehicles, highly successful missions were started in August 1977 ( HEAO 1 ), November 1978 ( HEAO 2, also called the Einstein Observatory ), and September 1979 ( HEAO 3 ).
Pinwheel was re-launched as Nickelodeon on April 1, 1979, and despite its prior history on the QUBE system under the Pinwheel name, Nickelodeon has declared that 1979 is the network's official launch year.
The first launch was on 24 December 1979, and was successful.
In 1988, Russell Morash planned to launch a spinoff of This Old House called The New Yankee Workshop, and he needed a convenient place to videotape so they used the shop in the small barn that Abram built in 1979 in Morash's backyard.
To participate in the ERM, Ireland had to break the Irish pound's parity with the pound sterling in 1979, because the pound sterling, which was not an ERM currency, appreciated against all ERM currencies shortly after the launch of the ERM.
In 1979, KBS radio began broadcasting on the FM wave with the launch of KBS 1FM.
The Z8000 CPU series was introduced in early 1979, between the launch of the Intel 8086 ( April 1978 ) and the Motorola 68000 ( September 1979 ).
Peugeot 504 production in Europe was pruned back in 1979 with the launch of the Peugeot 505, and the last European example rolled off the production line in 1983, although the pick up version continued in production, and was available in Europe until 1993.
In 1979, when the NATO decision was taken, the Soviet Union had 14 ( 1 operational ) SS-20 launch sites.
The R7 was introduced two years after the launch of the R5, then restyled in 1979, followed by an engine upgrade to 1108 cc in 1980.
The 1966-72 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory missions demonstrated the important role space-based observations could play in astronomy, and 1968 saw the development by NASA of firm plans for a space-based reflecting telescope with a mirror 3 m in diameter, known provisionally as the Large Orbiting Telescope or Large Space Telescope ( LST ), with a launch slated for 1979.
UK sales of the Horizon ( which went on sale there in early 1978 and was badged as a Chrysler until 1 August 1979, when it became a Talbot ) were initially quite strong, but within five years of its launch it was starting to lose sales in a segment dominated by an increasing number of newer models including the Ford Escort Mark III, Vauxhall Astra, Austin Maestro and Volkswagen Golf Mark II.
In 1979, Franks's PR agency was commissioned by the Murjani Corporation to launch Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, one of the first designer jeans to be launched in the UK.

1979 and VisiCalc
Joined by Bob Frankston, the two created the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, and released it on the Apple II computer in 1979.
In 1979 it released VisiCalc, which would be so successful that in 1982 the company was renamed " VisiCorp ".
With the development of the VisiCalc application in 1979, microcomputers broke out of the factory and began entering office suites in large quantities, but still through the back door.
Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc. ( later named VisiCorp ).
In 1979 Apple's President Mike Scott enlisted Wigginton to write a secret competitor to VisiCalc, to use as leverage against VisiCorp ( then Personal Software, Inc .).

1979 and initially
Having ascertained that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir which initially failed.
Owendo ’ s capacity, initially 300, 000 tons, reached 1. 5 million tons in 1979, when the port was enlarged to include timber-handling facilities.
He joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979 – 80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.
Post-independence politics were initially dominated by the Commonwealth of Nations ' youngest head of state, Ieremia Tabwai, just 29, Kiribati's first beretitenti ( president ), who served for three terms from 1979 to 1991.
This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979.
The project was initially conceived in the 1940s but not completed until 1979.
The branch remained part of the Bakerloo line until 1 May 1979, when similar congestion problems for the Bakerloo line caused by two branches converging at Baker Street led to the opening of the Jubilee line, initially created by connecting the Stanmore branch to new tunnels bored between Baker Street and Charing Cross.
In 1979, work started on the 7. 25 " gauge ' Riverside ' railway which ran initially with an electric engine and later with a steam locomotive.
In the Labour Government of 1974 – 1979 he returned to the Cabinet, initially as Secretary of State for Industry, before being made Secretary of State for Energy, retaining his post when James Callaghan replaced Wilson as Prime Minister.
The 1979 Mustang was based on the longer Fox platform ( initially developed for the 1978 Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr ).
Warner Bros. initially released the film in 1979 under the title, The Ace.
Throughout 1979, the band developed a loyal following among British hard rock and heavy metal fans and were even initially considered the leaders of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ( a status eventually claimed by Iron Maiden ).
The organization's headquarters were initially located in Baghdad ( Iraq ) 1955 – 1958 and Ankara ( Turkey ) 1958 – 1979.
The Dingoes are an Australian country rock band initially active from 1973 to 1979, formed in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976.
The seizure of the American embassy was initially planned in September 1979 by Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, a student at that time.
Prisoner premiered in Australia on 27 February 1979 and instantly struck a chord with the audience, initially prompting the producers to extend the series from a 16-part serial to 20-parts, and then to an ongoing concern.
After losing his re-election bid for Mayor to George Voinovich in 1979, Kucinich initially kept a low profile in Cleveland politics.
Among the first wave of early punk bands, the Dead Boys were initially active from 1976 to 1979, briefly reuniting in 1987, 2004 and 2005.
He did not do much initially to do that, a second place finish at Watkins Glen being the best he could do, but he helped put the team on the Formula One map in 1979 using the Williams FW07, after winning four races in the span of five events near the end of the season.
Mad Max was initially released in Australia through Roadshow Entertainment ( now Village Roadshow Pictures ) in 1979.
Universal began syndicating the show ( initially under the name Jim Rockford, Private Investigator due to standard practices at that time for a show still running on a network ) in 1979 and aggressively marketed it to local stations well into the early and middle 1980s.
The SWF initially had some success, but when Tom Brown, a long-term and very active member was forced out of activity, it declined until by 1979 it had only one lone branch in Manchester.
Although the film rights were initially sold in 1979, they were passed along by several different studios and directors before finally being obtained by Tobe Hooper, for whom Russo wrote a script.
The Chrysler minivans launched a few months ahead of the Renault Espace ( the first MPV / minivan in Europe, initially presented to executives as a Talbot in 1979, but not launched until 1984 ), making them the first of their kind – effectively creating the modern minivan segment in the US.

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