Word: pads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since last November, the new space shuttle Challenger has been perched proudly on its Florida pad, pointing skyward like an anxious eagle. Last week NASA officials gloomily conceded that their $1 billion bird may have to sit in its nest a while longer. The latest delay involves the most serious problem yet encountered with the troubled Challenger: a basic defect in design that requires overhauling all three of the main engines. Unless the flaw can be quickly corrected, the problem could create a horrendous backup of civilian and military satellites waiting to be carried aloft and add millions...
...other engines. On Feb. 25 they found a hydrogen leak in the No. 2 engine. A day or so later, the same kind of leak turned up in the No. 3 engine. Faced with this mounting crisis on the eve of a launch, Abrahamson rushed out to the pad, clambered up the launch tower and personally inspected the inner plumbing of the engines. It became clear that NASA's original fix had only exacerbated the problem: instead of preventing chafing during the vibrations at full power, the brazing and extra sleeves had made the fuel lines so stiff that...
...vertical masts, will be of steel and aluminum, with translucent panels that will give the structure a traditional Japanese air. The exterior alone could cost $200 million. There was a cost overrun on an $87 million contract with British Steel for girders strong enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
...space shuttle Challenger, its maiden flight twice rescheduled, sat on its Florida pad last week plagued by glitches. Gas leaks had been discovered in both an original engine and its replacement. But for the next group of astronauts, mechanical foul-ups are only one worry. Today's space travelers have an additional concern: the body's reactions to zero gravity...
...made a key glove save on a Shayne Kukulowiez shot just before the Elis four-goal second period explosion. But in last year's 1-1 tie at Bright. Harvard's only red light was a low Alan Litchfield blast from the point which hit Tortorella's stick-side pad and bounced in and Mark Fusco's game-winner Saturday night followed the same route...