Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either melted or wrenched loose the struts that held the booster to the lower end of the external tank. The booster then pivoted on its still intact upper-attachment fitting and crashed its nose into the tank wall. The escaping liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen ignited, causing the fatal explosion. At week's end NASA had not commented on the report...
...however, Quicksilver's title may not be inappropriate: like mercury, it may be fatal if swallowed...
...that seemingly fatal plume developed on the booster's side? The panelists kept asking about the unusually cold weather at the launch site. The temperature had dropped to 24 degrees F early that morning and had risen to only 38 degrees at the 11:38 a.m. lift-off. Buffeted by overnight winds of up to 35 m.p.h., the shuttle had gone through what meteorologists call a "cold soak," conditions more severe than those at any of the previous 24 shuttle launches. NASA manuals say that the solid fuel in a booster should be ignited only when the rubber-like mixture...
...music for the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, and a few years later was transformed into a five-movement work. However suspect its origins as a film score, the "Antartica" is a rumbling, frightening opus, summoning up the terror and wonder that the explorer experienced on his fatal adventure. Haitink, who has a strong affinity for British music, admirably realizes the score's sense of impending, dispassionate, impersonal doom...
...fatal explosion of the space shuttle Challenger was an accident waiting to happen if estimates of solid rocket booster failure in a 1983 Air Force report are true, says Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass...