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Quarterback: The word on Brown's regular QB Danny Clark: doubtful. Which means he'll probably play. Clark, suffering from an ankle injury, is 50 of 105 for 577 yards. His backup, Dan Rucamp, is five of 13 for 62 yards. In five games, Clark has thrown two touchdowns and seven interceptions. In two games, Rucamp has thrown no touchdowns and one interception...
...Backup goalie Scott Frewing saved eight shots...
...Ever since, Hilmers has had a dream that "one day a shuttle would once again make its way to the launchpad to launch Americans into space." A religious man, he says his anxiety about the mission was "soothed by my faith in God." Hilmers, who doubles as Covey's backup pilot, is a math whiz. He graduated summa cum laude from Cornell College, in Iowa, and earned an electrical-engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He joined the Marines in 1972, and was selected as an astronaut in 1980. Hilmers was mission specialist on the first flight...
...gnawing doubts remained. Despite exhaustive ground testing of the new and modified shuttle parts, none had been tried in the harsh environment of a launch, or in orbit or re-entry. Moreover, some of them are among the more than 1,500 "criticality 1" parts -- that is, items without backup whose failure could end the mission, perhaps catastrophically...
Neither problem was critical. Flight DirectorGary Coen said engineers were devising ways ofthawing the evaporator before it is needed againand that backup power was available to turn thesteering engine...