Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...
Recovery of the shuttle's right solid fuel rocket booster is particularly important because speculation about the cause of the explosion currently centers on it. Videotape and still photos taken after launch show a plume of fire shooting out from its side toward the external fuel tank, which blew up into a giant fireball...
...liquid hydrogen. Two lines connected the fuels to the orbiter, where they would be mixed at controlled levels to power the spacecraft's engines. The other two companions were the gleaming white boosters, each 149 ft. tall and packed with more than 1.1 million lbs. of solid fuel. Once ignited at lift-off, they would burn uncontrollably until their fuel was spent...
Although attention at week's end was focusing on a possible burn-through of the casing on one of the shuttle's two solid-fuel booster rockets, Space Flight Director Jesse Moore warned against premature speculation, saying "it will take all the data and a careful review of those data before we can draw any conclusions...
...Crucifixion, as an act, has no action in it," he said. "The execution is passive. Perspective has the effect of fixing objects in space as solid; the lack of movement is what kills...