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Word: backups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joints on the rocket boosters, one of which obviously failed on the Jan. 28 Challenger flight. Re-evaluations and, if necessary, redesigns would be ordered for all 748 shuttle parts designated "criticality 1," meaning that if they failed the mission would be lost, since these parts had no backup performing the same vital function. When any qualified person "raises his hand" to oppose a launch-go, Truly pledged, "he will be listened to." Truly insisted that his "conservative" flight philosophy would not mean "a namby-pamby program." Said he: "The business of flying in space is bold business. We cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truly Spoken: An admiral sets NASA straight | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

This performance differed from her 1984 Mister Heartbreak tour in that Anderson had musical support from only a single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...designate them as "criticality 1" items, components whose failure would doom the mission. Earlier shuttle flights had indicated that the second ring might be unseated from its groove by the great pressures on the rocket casing during lift-off, and could not always be relied upon as a backup should the first ring fail. Lack of a reliable backup violated a longtime NASA principle. The space agency formally waived the redundancy requirement for these seals in March 1983 to permit flights to continue. Meantime, as many as 43 different solutions to the problem were being studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Deficiency | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...appalled" by the reasoning behind the no-fly stance of Thiokol, $ while Mulloy insisted that there was no demonstrable link between temperature and O-ring erosion. He contended that despite NASA's placing the booster seals on the criticality-1 list because of a lack of redundancy, the backup ring would certainly seat in the critical early-ignition phase of the launch and provide a seal even if gases got by the first ring. Since NASA had not established a minimum launch temperature for the boosters, he and Hardy both complained that Thiokol was trying to change the flight criteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Deficiency | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...Award, is a notch behind Bourbeau with a 1.97 point-per-game average. The nation's top scorer is Western Michigan's Dan Dorian, owner of a 2.68 points-per-game average...Fusco made the ECAC Honor Roll for his two-goal effort against St. Lawrence...McEvoy and fellow backup goalie John Devin finished in a tie for first place in Ivy League goals-against average. McEvoy didn't allow a goal in his 16 minutes of Ivy action against Brown in early February and Devin blanked Dartmouth in his 10 minute Ancient Eight cameo in late November...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Bourbeau Will Replace Fusco on First Line Against Colgate | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

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