Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's solid hitting and the Unicorn's ineptitude continued for the next three innings. Betty 'she's so hot, you'll melt if you stand near her" Ippolito collected two hits--a single and a double--and two RBI's. Elaine Holpuch cracked her fourth homer of the season, and, in the bottom of the third, designated hitter Sarah LeBlond scored the 16th run of the game when three consecutive Smith errors let her circle the bases...
...Billy Martin. A journeyman infielder who grew up tough on the streets of Oakland, he parlayed his limited skills and limitless daring into a solid major league career. Ask the Oakland A's. They finished in last place in 1979, 34 games behind California in the AL West. Playing Billyball, they finished second last year, though 14 games behind the league champion Kansas City Royals. Says Pitching Ace Mike Norris, who won Oakland's 1981 opener with a six-hitter: "Billy gave us the confidence that in past years we didn't have...
...just after dawn on Sunday, the ship's three main engines roared to life. Throttling quickly to 90% of their full 1.1 million lbs. of thrust, the engines caused the spacecraft and fuel tanks to tilt ever so slightly. Seconds later, they snapped back to vertical, and two solid-fuel rockets-fiery space-age Roman candles never before used on a manned flight-ignited, adding their full fury, 5.3 million lbs. more of thrust...
...world. Two days late but this time almost precisely on its new schedule-indeed, only 3.983 sec. late, by Launch Control's incredibly accurate reckoning-the spaceship Columbia took off on man's first commuter run into the heavens. Two minutes after the flawless liftoff, the two solid-fuel boosters folded back from the 75-ton space shuttle and began to settle under parachutes about 160 miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean, only 16 miles off target, for recovery by ship and later reuse. Said Mission Control: "Columbia is now committed to space travel...
...spacecraft's 30,000 or so silica tiles, essential for insulating Columbia against the flaming, 2,400° F heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, had fallen off. Apparently they were shaken loose during maximum vibrations in the first few moments of the launch, possibly when the solid-fuel rockets were kicked away. The tiles, about a dozen in all, came from the area just above the orbital maneuvering engines on either side of the rudder. Mission controllers quickly pointed out that this was a noncritical zone and would not interfere with the landing, though Columbia...