Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit the zoo often, glimpsing at the large creatures in the clear tank as often as they can. With the wonder of children wrapped in the cynicism of unfulfilled dreams, they gaze at the turtles wishing that for once they can do something for their fellow man, or turtle, as the case...
...separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...report, ABC cited an internal National Aeronautics and Space Administration memo by Arnold Aldrich, manager of the shuttle project in Houston, that said an operator at Cape Canaveral inadvertently dumped 18,000 pounds of liquid oxygen from the shuttle's external fuel tank...
...last month. On February 18, Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, unveiled the administration's decision to provide Jonas Savimbi's guerillas, who are fighting against the Angolan government, with at least $15 million in anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles...
...Feynman probed further, he was told by NASA that the surface temperature of the external tank, which contains supercold liquid oxygen (-297 degrees ) and hydrogen (-423 degrees ) had not been abnormally cold, casting doubt on a theory that liquid fuel, leaking unnoticed from the tank, had chilled the nearby booster. He also discovered that the wind on the morning of the launch had been blowing across the cold surface of the tank toward the right booster. As one NASA engineer explained, "Even a slight breeze, wafting over the external tank full of those cryogens (supercold fluids) may have been enough...