Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most rocket experts, the telltale black smoke meant that right from the start, at least one of the two synthetic rubber O rings that were meant to seal the joint between the rocket's segments had begun to burn. Roughly a quarter-inch thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, the large O rings rest in grooves at the three joints. Like the washers that prevent faucets from leaking, they are designed to keep the rocket's exhaust gases from escaping through any gaps in the joints. These are especially vulnerable under the immense forces generated at lift-off (the entire...
...head of an experimental music laboratory at the Pompidou Center in Paris known acronymically as IRCAM. He has kept a low profile since, shunning most conducting invitations in order to compose in his electronic studio. Has the former enfant terrible, now 60, mellowed? Or does his modernist flame burn as brightly as ever...
...rocket joints. After these talks, Lovingood told the commission, "Thiokol recommended to proceed" with the flight. Privately, experts explained that gaps in the seals or cracks in the fuel mixture could allow the hot exhaust gases within the booster to reach the rocket's outer steel casing and burn through it. Another possibility was that the flame-retarding material between the booster sections could have loosened under the wide variations in temperature, providing another route for a burnthrough. Most analysts assume that once the flame sliced through the rocket casing, it reached the liquid-fuel tank, burning through either...
...biggest advantage of the New Memory plan is that King, Roosevelt and other dead advocates of social justice can't respond when the Reagan rhetoriticians paint them as the pilgrims of the New Right tactics of slash and burn government...
Although attention at week's end was focusing on a possible burn-through of the casing on one of the shuttle's two solid-fuel booster rockets, Space Flight Director Jesse Moore warned against premature speculation, saying "it will take all the data and a careful review of those data before we can draw any conclusions...