Word: oed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard O. Covey, 42, pilot. "If I thought we were the only five guys in the whole world willing to fly Discovery, it would be different. But I'm in an office of people who are hungry to go sit on that rocket." Covey's sentiment amply reflects his gung-ho attitude about NASA's return to space. Covey rose to the rank of colonel after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1968 and studying aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University. He flew 339 combat missions in Viet Nam, then became an Air Force weapons-system test pilot...
...changes, none was more carefully scrutinized than the redesign of what proved to be Challenger's fatal flaw: the joint between segments of the solid-fuel rocket booster. Zeroing in on the booster joints, which are sealed by rubber O rings that are supposed to prevent leaks of superhot gas from the burning fuel, a team composed of outside experts as well as specialists from NASA and Morton Thiokol, manufacturer of the rocket, evolved a design that eventually withstood five full-scale, two-minute stationary firing tests at Thiokol's Utah proving grounds...
...frantic effort to accelerate its schedule, NASA began to cut corners. Officials at the Marshall Space Flight Center responsible for certifying the launchworthiness of the external tank, the boosters and the main engines of each shuttle began issuing more and more waivers on questionable "criticality" items like the O rings that had shown signs of erosion and charring on earlier flights. In fact Challenger was flown with at least four procedural waivers...
...reverse 3 1/2 somersault. The win gave him both diving golds, to go with the two he won at Los Angeles. Xiong took the silver, and compact, precise Jesus Mena of Mexico the bronze. Once out of the pool, Greg shed tears and threw his arms around coach Ron O'Brien, who called it the "greatest dive of his career...
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