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After the burly ho-hummery of summer blockbusters, the autumn arts season is supposed to offer innovation, cerebration, the thrill of threat. Not so much this year. From heroes (James Bond) to villains (the murderous Dr. Crippen), everything new is old again. The first single from the fall CD by Beyoncé says it all: Deja Vu. Seen this, heard that. And, if it's any good, happy to feel it again...
...monument to Murphy's Law, the great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers...
...Robert Crippen, who was in a 1983 Challenger flight with...
...highly explosive liquid hydrogen into the fuel tank of the space shuttle Columbia, the countdown was halted and the flight scrubbed -- for the third time in just over three months. "We do not consider that the vehicle is safe to fly," declared shuttle director Robert Crippen, who earlier this summer grounded the entire fleet when leaks turned up in the shuttle Atlantis as well. NASA has not been able to get a shuttle off the ground since April, when it launched the now crippled Hubble telescope. Though shuttle engineers once talked of 24 flights a year, so far NASA...
...resume shuttle flights. Time and again during the past year, as problems cropped up during tests of new and redesigned shuttle equipment, officials pushed back Discovery's launch date, from February to August, finally settling on Sept. 29. Even during the final stages of the countdown, mission manager Crippen polled top weather advisers individually before waiving the restriction about the winds aloft...