Word: backups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the deepening autumnal landscape of the upper Middle West, the northern Rockies and the Far West soared the White House caravan of three sleek 707s (Kennedy's Air Force One, a backup plane and a press plane). Wherever the "Conservation Tour" set down, folks seemed a bit awed-and more than a bit puzzled over why all the fuss. They should have known. Kennedy was looking forward to next year's elections. It was no coincidence that in 1960 Kennedy lost eight of the eleven states he visited last week. It was even less of a coincidence...
Mather's basement was equally inundated, and the Quincy superintendent reported that "the wind is blowing rain in through the walls of Mather." New Quincy was plagued by a sewer backup. Two pumps were kept working Saturday and Sunday pumping out the sewers in an effort to remove the unpleasant odor...
John Yardley, 37, base manager, capsule designer, and an engineer for McDonnell Aircraft Corp., the space capsule's builders, has responsibility for the proper functioning of the capsule's multiplicity of systems, subsystems and backup systems. Handsome and softspoken, he spent more than a year preparing the Friendship 7 for its orbital flight. It was chiefly his advice that led to the decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached on Friendship 7's reentry. Yardley graduated from Iowa State College and earned a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in 1950, worked...
...Conference. NASA officials reported that almost everything on the capsule had worked perfectly. One electrical part (an alternator) had misbehaved, but its functions were taken over by a backup duplicate. The oxygen system leaked a little, but not enough to matter. The "man" on board survived the trip, exactly as a human would have, but since he was only a simulated astronaut, he could not hold a press conference...
...limited-war headquarters" that would cut across service lines. Wrote he: "There is no single headquarters anywhere which supervises the planning for overseas movements or verifies readiness for movement. The cost would be negligible, but the advantage gained very considerable." Taylor would also give ground forces a nuclear backup punch as a further deterrent...