Word: mishaps
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...been attacked by a roan antelope in Africa and knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road through the island...
Controllers quickly determined the cause of the symptoms: a line from the tank containing the oxidizer necessary to fire the thrusters had apparently sprung a leak. That mishap-coupled with the earlier loss of oxidizer from a unit in one of the other four-nozzle clusters when a valve jammed during rendezvous with Skylab-left the ferry craft with part of its attitude control system not working. For several nerve-racking hours last week, NASA officials contemplated bringing the second crew of Skylab astronauts home immediately, lest any further deterioration in the Apollo rocket control system jeopardize their chances...
...killers escaped from Norway and arrived without mishap in Tel Aviv, though Norwegian police think they may have been responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old boy. Two "trailers," who had provided security for the killers, also made their getaway. But others were caught. Acting on tips, police picked up four of the Israeli conspirators at the Oslo airport; they carried large sums of money as well as false passports. Two others were apprehended in the apartment of an Israeli embassy official in Oslo...
...entire $2.5 billion program. But at week's end, as the crippled Skylab continued to orbit the earth, a combination of space-age teamwork and old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity on the part of NASA raised hopes that the mission could yet be salvaged. In fact, the mishap and the bold reaction to it promised to elevate a relatively monotonous experimental flight into high adventure in space...
...cause of the mishap is still in doubt. One U.S. theory was that the third stage of Salyut's large booster may have exploded after rocketing the spaceship into orbit, possibly because of an excess of unburned fuel. Drifting only a short distance away, the booster may have sent fragments ripping into Salyut, thereby badly damaging the gyroscopic controls and thrusters that help maintain the ship's stability. Another possible explanation was that one of the Soviet Union's oceangoing tracking ships inadvertently fired one of Salyut's thrusters, sending it into an uncontrollable spin...