Word: diameterically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the obvious devastation of the explosion, searchers began finding surprisingly large parts of the wreckage, the biggest being a 25-ft.- long section of the spacecraft's fuselage. Parts of the shuttle's wings, cabin and cargo-bay door were tentatively identified. Sonar detected a large metal object 140...
The launch platform was about to be flooded by powerful streams of water gushing from six pipes fully 7 ft. in diameter. The purpose: to damp the lift- off sound levels from Challenger's three engines. Otherwise, the acoustic energy alone could damage the craft's underside. The main-engine...
Put forward by Channel Tunnel Group/France Manche, a British-French consortium, the rail-tunnel plan was one of four options submitted to the two governments last October by competing groups. The winning proposal envisages two tubes, each 24 ft. in diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between...
Also found were two cone-shaped objects described as "about 10 feet" in diameter. One had an attached parachute, indicating it came from one of the solid rocket boosters blown up. Each booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the...
One of the most important contributions from the Vega program will be what is called the Pathfinder concept. Together the probes will attempt to reckon the position and orbit of Halley's nucleus with a precision impossible from ground-based observations and then beam the data back to the Soviet...