Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPACE CENTER, Houston--A space shuttle accident on landing at Cape Canaveral is a certainty because the site is dangerous, says chief astronaut John Young in a memo written before the Challenger disaster.
"Our present experience is telling us that if we continue to use the Shuttle Landing Facility [at Kennedy] for end-of-mission landings, sooner or later we will have an accident due to the single runway, its condition ... the unpredictable ... weather, component failures including the flight crew, or, more likely...
The Rogers commission has another three months to complete its investigation into Challenger's explosion only 73 seconds after blasting off from the ice-encrusted Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, killing all seven of its crew. But on one point the testimony already seemed...
Those familiar with any of Author Robert Stone's three earlier novels will immediately recognize Gordon Walker as one of the writer's wounded refugees of the 1960s and a very bad accident waiting to happen. Part of the fascination of Children of Light comes from watching the author nudge...
Apparently not. Last October Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old sorority pledge, died at a party sponsored by two sororities when after drinking heavily, she fell from a bridge. And in Texas, Kappa Alpha Rusty Combes, 26, won a $21 million out- of-court settlement for injuries sustained in an...