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...have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7˝-ton cylinder built by Hughes Aircraft's Space & Communications Group...
...data. The voice recorder should have preserved every sound in the cockpit during the last 30 minutes of flight, from the voices of the crew to possible instrument noises, like alarms. The flight-data recorder should show precise measurements of altitude, engine speed, heading and other flight conditions from takeoff to the impact of the crash...
...Spooky” persona will appear in Miller’s to-be-released novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, a takeoff of the classic Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
...Numbers 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. Time it took financier turned adventurer Steve Fossett to become the first man to fly nonstop around the world without refueling 1.2 tons Approximate amount of fuel that unaccountably disappeared after takeoff...
...Approximate amount of fuel that unaccountably disappeared after takeoff...