Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fire and smoke streamed across the desert outside Brigham City, Utah, last week as Morton Thiokol successfully fired its redesigned booster rocket for NASA's shuttle fleet. With the test, the crippled shuttle program cleared its first major technical hurdle in resuming flights, now set for next summer...
...achievement came after glitches scuttled three scheduled tests. Company engineers are now examining for charring or erosionthe revamped joints that connect segments of the booster. Those signs indicate leakage of burning gases, the problem that led to the Challenger explosion 19 months ago. More stringent testing lies ahead. Still, officials of the space agency and Morton Thiokol were ecstatic. Said NASA Associate Administrator Richard Truly: "We waited a long time to see this...
...make myself feel better," he explains, "or I could spend $3,000 to change something that has always bothered me." An older, simpler method to smooth the skin involves the injection of protein collagen into scars and wrinkles. This procedure usually requires several treatments plus an annual booster. Cost...
...already being done by Dr. Daniel Zagury of Paris' Pierre and Marie Curie University. Zagury included himself among twelve healthy people who received an experimental vaccine made up of a portion of the AIDS virus inserted into a larger, usually harmless virus called vaccinia. They also received a booster shot of their own cells that had been treated with the vaccinia. The volunteers, he reported, showed signs of antibodies to the AIDS virus. Nonetheless, warned Zagury, "we do not want to give false hopes...
...spectators cheered, a 600-ft. tongue of bright orange flame scorched a Utah hillside last week. Jubilation was in order: the firing marked the first full- scale test of the space shuttle's revamped solid rocket booster since last year's Challenger explosion. After a government commission pinned the tragedy on faulty seals in the booster, manufactured by Morton Thiokol, the company returned to the drawing board. Last week's firing, the first of six, tested new electrical heaters and reinforcing bands on the booster's joints. "We've taken a real bashing by the press," said Morton Thiokol Engineer...