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...Barely a week later, it is as though all of it happened long ago: the remarkably diverse crew walks to the NASA van, the spacecraft lifts majestically skyward, and disaster. A shower of smoke and debris and the booster rockets crazily flailing away, trailing a jagged streamer of cloudy exhaust and diverting us from staring at that ugly fireball. Seven people and man's most magnificent machine, gone in a second. From life to death to nothing. In a second...
Photographs released by NASA show a tongue of flame apparently lashing upward from the exhaust of the right booster rocket into an area that films of previous launches showed to be clear of fire or flame. The flame appeared in the last 15 seconds of flight...
...earth and shown live on television. Mass spectrometers will analyze the composition of the dust from the nucleus, and other instruments will examine the properties of the ions in detail and measure the magnetic field girdling the comet's head. To prevent contamination of the surrounding space by the exhaust from Giotto's thrusters, controllers will turn off the engines at least 24 hours ahead of time. Says David Dale: "We don't want to come away from the encounter convinced that the comet is made of hydrazine (rocket fuel...
...doesn't just live in New Jersey. He is New Jersey. He's exhaust-choked freeways lit up by garish neon signs (see "Born to Run"). He's wild nights at the Jersey shore (see "Greetings from Asbury Park"). He's boring towns where there's nothing to do on a Saturday night anymore except write songs about them (see "Born in the U.S.A...
...Andrews' design school. But the Sackler's most startling feature is its aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield: "The entrance looks like Superman's Fortress of Solitude." Inside, a steep, monumental staircase features antique friezes on one wall, while the opposite side is adorned with massive tubular brass railings...