Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race between finger time and electronic time," said NASA Spokesman Rocky Raab. "Electronics...
...trouble was not unfamiliar. "We have had a history of contaminants clogging the system," admitted a technician at Kennedy. NASA engineers had even included a bypass around the oil filters just in case. Such clogging is usually caused by a leak in liquid hydrazine, the auxiliary power units' fuel. Hydrazine reacts with lubricating oil to form waxy polymers, or gunk. Despite this hazard, prelaunch preparations did not include an oil change; the two jammed systems were running on the same oil used in last April's shuttle mission. Significantly, the oil in the one working system was fresh...
...week's end, NASA officials rescheduled the launch for this Thursday after determining that the oil systems were in working order. This was scant consolation to the Detroit News. A front-page story headlined COLUMBIA DOES AN ENCORE appeared in some of last Wednesday's editions, describing the "perfect launch" in glowing detail. This week with a little luck and good Floridian weather, both the News and NASA might get it right...
...Venus is such an inferno, the heavenly goddess has held a special fascination for scientists. Why, they wonder, has a planet so close to earth and so like it in size and density evolved into a world so vastly different and hostile? Last week at a conference sponsored by NASA'S Ames Research Center, they provided new insights into Venus-and some warnings about the earth's own future...
...Says NASA'S James Pollack, a planetary scientist: "It's a very real possibility...