Word: booster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Initial attempts to locate an explosive satellite booster rocket spotted underwater by sonar failed, and Navy divers intensified their offshore search yesterday for wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger...
...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...
...sealed forever into the most uncomfortable corner of our consciousness. Barely a week later, it is as though all of it happened long ago: the remarkably diverse crew walks to the NASA van, the spacecraft lifts majestically skyward, and disaster. A shower of smoke and debris and the booster rockets crazily flailing away, trailing a jagged streamer of cloudy exhaust and diverting us from staring at that ugly fireball. Seven people and man's most magnificent machine, gone in a second. From life to death to nothing. In a second...
...pointed to a "field joint"--the seam between the lowest segment of the right booster and the second segment. The name comes form the fact that the segments arrive here individually and are put together at the center...
...booster, which NASA officials are now saying may have caused Tuesday's disaster, nearly caused a disaster during the eight shuttle mission in October 1983 as well...