Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film crew will work in the Cambridge area for a week, taking "establishment shots" of the city's streets and skyline to show that the movie is set in Cambridge. However, Nimoy will produce the the bulk of the film in Toronto, said Hilary Clark, publicity director for Walt Disney Studios. She attributed the location change to "sheer economics...
Then why not do more? Explains NASA's William Chandler, who heads the crew escape project at Houston's Johnson Space Center: "The bottom line is, there's not a heck of a lot of protection we can provide without paying a significant penalty in time and weight." Retooling the orbiter to include a < more versatile system, such as ejection seats, could shut down the shuttle fleet for four more years. "We'd run the risk of never flying again," says Chandler. "The next spacecraft anyone designs will have an escape system designed into it," declares Discovery Crew Member Pinky...
...they go, both new systems look adequate. Each is designed to get astronauts safely clear of the shuttle's fuselage and wings so they can parachute to earth. In a disaster -- say, the loss of an engine -- the crew will trigger explosives to jettison the escape-hatch cover, then exit one by one. If the rocket system is in place, each astronaut will be yanked from the ship with 2,000 lbs. of thrust. Otherwise, they will hook onto the telescoping pole, which will extend through the door, and let gravity and airflow pull them down and out of harm...
...Glenn Ford in the movie?), is serious on this voyage. Instead of another hardware-heavy Tom Clancy naval thriller like The Hunt for Red October, Brinkley's tale has humanity, thoughtfulness and one inspired complication: women. On the Nathan James, not surprisingly nowadays in this man's Navy, 32 crew members are female. Sexual tension and just plain tension mount as the ship, food and fuel dwindling, scours the globe for a habitable place to settle down and, if the women are willing, raise some families...
...Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most...