Word: compartmentation
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But even before Air Force One reached Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes and Chief of Staff Donald Regan launched a campaign to reverse the downbeat impressions. They urged National Security Adviser John Poindexter to wander back into the press compartment of the plane. "Do you really want me to...
While arguments with the doctors went on, worse things began. On July 3, 1983, Izvestia ran a letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based...
Just three seconds after Commander Francis Scobee radioed "Roger, go at throttle up" last Jan. 28, the Challenger was smashed to pieces, instantly killing the shuttle astronauts. That, at least, is what most Americans have believed for the past six months. Last week NASA revealed the chilling truth: at best...
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center, wrote in last week's report, "The forces on the orbiter at breakup were probably too low to cause death or serious injury . . . the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter...
Kerwin said that it was possible the crewmembers lost consciousness due to a loss ofpressure inside the crew compartment. The loss ofpressure could be deadly, even if the crew memberswere breathing from the air packs, he said.