Word: crewed
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...Fellow crew members dragged Irwin from the water and began cardio-pulmonary resuscitation while racing their boat Croc One to meet a rescue helicopter. Despite their efforts, he was pronounced dead at Cairns Base Hospital at noon. Outside the hospital his longtime friend and producer John Stainton said, "He died doing what he loves best, and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, Crocs rule...
...long, long time in coming, but NASA?s manned space program finally got one right. Thursday's announcement that the contract for the next-generation crew exploration vehicle - now dubbed Orion - had been awarded to Lockheed Martin was the right spacecraft to the right company at the right time...
...comparatively primitive motors that burn a sort of rubbery goo and can neither be throttled up and down nor shut off once they?re lit. The shuttle?s two external engines burn solid fuel, and it was one of those that destroyed the Challenger. Moreover, until the shuttle, the crew compartment of any manned ship had always been positioned at the very top of the rocket stack, keeping it away from debris that may shake itself off the booster on the way up. The shuttle orbiter sits rear of the nose of the external tank, and it?s hard foam...
...Orion spacecraft, by contrast, is based on proven Apollo technology. It?s configured like a large Apollo: a conical crew compartment atop a cylindrical engine module. It will sit atop heavy-lift boosters that are modeled in part after the shuttle?s own liquid-fuel engines - far and away the best part of the old shuttle technology and the part most worth saving. Unlike Apollo, it will be stuffed with 21st century electronics and computers, and it will be cleverly reconfigurable, able to carry six astronauts into Earth orbit and four to the moon or Mars...
...Mullally: I thought of all the great years we had on the show and how I will miss all of these wonderful people who I went to work with everyday. I wanted to try to convey the idea that it was a group effort, the combination of crew, staff and cast...