Word: glitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone survival training in case the capsule bringing him home misses its mark. Any worries about a technical glitch prolonging his stay? Not for Baturin. Compared with his Earth job ? thinking up ways to reform Russia's overmanned, underpaid military ? keeping the oxygen candles burning should be child's play...
...turned out to be just another technical glitch. The Russian Space Agency reported that the generators had overheated, but that the two cosmonauts and one astronaut had managed to cool them down again. After this latest mishap the crew settled down for a good night's sleep...
...Cook was proved right. On the morning of Sol 8, Sojourner awoke, received its instructions and, after one more brief glitch, backed off Yogi, approached again and began eagerly sniffing out the rock's chemistry. Back at J.P.L., the exuberant Pathfinder team was predicting that Sojourner might live for weeks--and even months. Indeed, the little rover just could...
...communication glitch between the lander and the rover took longer to resolve, but by late Saturday engineers believed they had synchronized the two systems and were cautiously declaring that that problem too was licked. Simply because Sojourner was now able to take to the Martian plains, however, did not mean that the going would be anything but painstakingly slow. For all its anthropomorphic sweetness, the plucky rover is a rather dimwitted machine. Its route from rock to rock will be programmed for it by a controller at a J.P.L. console, those instructions will be relayed to it through the Pathfinder...
...that someone who invented a giant electronic brain for Planet Earth would have a pretty impressive brain of his own. And Tim Berners-Lee, 41, the creator of the World Wide Web, no doubt does. But his brain also has one shortcoming, and, by his own account, this neural glitch may have been the key to the Web's inception...