Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down here and lost [to Stanford], 8-1," Stanley said. "It's a great feeling to know that your top priority is education, when Stanford is able to play outdoors all winter--and then to see that we're in the same league as them. It's a big lift...
...Prize 20 years ago. Others were fresher, including Astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. They and nine other experts were appointed last week to a presidential commission charged with finding out why the space shuttle Challenger had blown up 73 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, killing its seven-member crew. Without even waiting to assemble a staff, the panel promptly went to work, first grilling top NASA officials in public, then probing more deeply in closed sessions...
...officials testified that escape would have been impossible in any case. Arnold Aldrich, shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center, told the commissioners that Challenger could not have separated from the boosters and the tank until the solid-fuel rockets had completed their uncontrolled firing, about two minutes after lift-off. Any earlier separation, he said, would have thrown the shuttle into the wake of the powerful rocket motors, a situation that "is thought to be unsurvivable...
...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...
...fund-raising campaign. In return, Fibercraft has promised to name a Sac City official to its board, giving the community some voice in what the plant does after it moves in. Says Anne Lubeck, who runs the Corner Store at 16th and Main: "It will be such a psychological lift. We haven't had a lot to celebrate around here for a long time...