Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correspondents stationed at NASA command centers in Texas and Florida. Houston Bureau Chief Robert Wurmstedt interviewed NASA Staff Physician Sharon Tilton to learn about the astronauts' physical and emotional condition in space. He soon discovered that the only way to communicate with technicians was by taking a crash course in scientific shorthand. Says Wurmstedt: "The major impression made on any reporter covering a space shot for the first time is the apparent inability of scientists to explain anything in laymen's terms. Even the letter F can be a mystery. At NASA it stands for Fahrenheit, failure, female...
...late 1976 Hinckley went to California. He intended, John Sr. told a friend, to "crash Hollywood." He ended up at Howard's Weekly Apartments, in the seamy Selma Avenue district of Los Angeles-a street market for whores, drugs and every kind of sleaze. Perhaps during this period Hinckley developed his obsession with Actress Jodie Foster. Consider the plot parallels of the movie Taxi Driver, starring Foster as a prostitute and released just before Hinckley left for Los Angeles...
...motorcade has at least two cars filled with agents, including a station wagon, code-named War Wagon, that is crammed with weapons (ranging from Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns to shotguns), first-aid supplies and even tools for prying the President out of his car in case of a crash...
...Slayton and his NASA coileagues answered the pointed questions, calmly assuring an Australian journalist that Columbia's external fuel tank would not crash and burn outside of Perth, like Skylab two years ago, and responding to a New York journalist by saying. "We are very confident in the crew's training and in the overwhelming likelihood for success...
There ain't no big fun, in the crash...