Word: weather
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...shepherds it back into its hangar was standing by to claim Columbia as soon as the crowd cleared. In Mission Control in Houston things were similarly routine. "Many of us came in today marveling at the fact that one of the most difficult things we deal with is weather and we didn't have any weather issues anywhere in the world," says chief flight director Milt Heflin...
...weather would soon seem irrelevant. At 8:53 a.m., when the ship was crossing over San Francisco, a data point flickered on monitors at Mission Control indicating that the flow of information recording the temperature of the hydraulic systems in Columbia's left wing had suddenly ceased. At 8:56, when the ship was somewhere over Utah, the temperature in the landing gear and brake lining--again on the left side--registered high. Two minutes later, three temperature sensors embedded in the skin on the left flank of the ship quit transmitting. A minute later, temperature sensors in the left...
...world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls of Samoa. Regular steamer connections with Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. meant the bestselling author could keep up serial publication...
...about May of 1945, we relocated to Tinian. And around August 1st, we got a message from Washington, that the use of bomb had been released by the President. But it should not be dropped before the 2nd of August. The real limitation from then on was the weather in Japan. The first permissible weather was on the 6th of August. Our mission [Nagasaki] would be on the 9th. It had pretty much been...
...South Pasadena, Calif., came to the SSP to see how she would handle being 3,000 miles away from home for an extended period of time. While she says she isn’t a fan of the East Coast’s muggy and unpredictable weather, she has found the independence of her new lifestyle appealing...