Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sickening cloud of smoke and debris, signs of vitality were evident at Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week. To the cheers of hundreds of workers, the redesigned 85-ton orbiter Discovery was rolled into the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building to be attached to the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching pad 39B and poised for launch in late August or September. "The test results look good. The hardware looks great," said Deputy Operations...
Thus the watchword at NASA these days is caution. More than 200 modifications have been made to the orbiter alone, and dozens of others to the rocket boosters and the fuel tank. Would-be whistle blowers are encouraged to / report problems anonymously right to the top. "The real challenge," says Richard Truly, NASA associate administrator for space flight, "is to make sure we don't strangle ourselves with being worried excessively about safety...
...Discovery mission is successful, the NASA schedule will then call for nine flights next year and another nine in 1990. One hitch: there may not be enough solid rocket fuel. The shortage, which will begin next year, is the result of a series of explosions in early May that destroyed a Nevada plant that produced about 50% of the nation's ammonium perchlorate. The compound constitutes about 70% of the solid fuel used in the shuttle boosters...
When the U.S. tabled new numbers weighted against ICBMs, one of the Soviet negotiators, Gennadi Khromov, took out a Japanese pocket calculator and busily figured what the new American numbers would do to the strategic rocket forces of the U.S.S.R. -- and to the U.S. Air Force...
...fans like myself cringe at the thought of reading about the 1986 World Series, Angell, a fellow Red Sox supporter, makes his "Not So, Boston" chapter bearable with a detailed recall of Dave Henderson's clutch homer in the American League Championship Series against the Angels and "Rocket" Roger Clemens' glorious summer...