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Situations in which flammable chemicals may be present receive Level C attention, which involves splash protection and shields against explosives. The workers wear flash suits, aluminum suits that guard the workers against fire and heat...
...scientific gear (though not the balloon) will be recoverable, drifting back to earth by parachute at the end of a mission. Scientists, to be sure, have been flying high-altitude balloons since the 1950s. But there was always a major drawback: as the balloons rose, the sun's heat expanded their gas, and helium had to be vented to keep the balloon from exploding. Then, as the sun set and the gases contracted, ballast had to be dropped to keep it aloft. Missions rarely saw more than one or two sunsets...
SCOTT RITTER The Marine who came in from the heat keeps getting to say those three sweet words, "Told...
...mayor of Somerville, Capuano took heat for that city's underwhelming educational record...
...that velocity, says Guenter Riegler, a NASA senior scientist, a meteoroid as small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...