Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, addressing a problem that must be solved before any shuttle can fly, NASA tentatively selected a $500 million redesign for the shuttle's solid-fuel booster, the rocket responsible for the disaster. "We have taken every step to understand what failed on the Challenger and to incorporate a design that won't allow that to happen again," said John Thomas, who headed the modification effort at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Formal adoption, which might take months, will hinge on exhaustive tests by both the agency and booster contractor Morton Thiokol...
...Army, which has the worst procurement bureaucracy of all the services, still seems to design weapons by committee, with every bell and whistle thrown into the conglomeration. Says Defense Consultant Steven Canby: "The Army simply doesn't have the people who know something about technology. They put some infantry officer in charge of this program, when they need a technology expert...
...follows the Prince's attendance at aGraduate School of Design symposium entitled, "TheFuture of the City: the Next 50 Years." He is notexpected to make a speech at that seminar, saidKantner...
Despite that lofty feat, last week's flight was only a warm-up. In September, Rutan and Yeager, an experienced pilot and design engineer, will try to shatter the open course record of 12,532 miles by flying Voyager on a twelve-day, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world...
...such a marathon would clearly be a lightweight, efficient, flying fuel tank. Eighteen months and many sketches later, when Voyager assumed its basic shape, it was a textbook example of featherweight design and construction. The shell is made from quarter-inch-thick panels of Hexcel honeycomb, a resin-coated, paper-like polymer, covered with graphite fibers embedded in epoxy. The panels weigh just 4 oz. per sq. ft. but have remarkable tensile strength; the ends of the craft's thin, 110-ft. single wing can flex up and down as much as 35 ft. without breaking...