13 members of the miracle on ice team played in the nhl.
how many of the miracle on ice team played in the nhl?
13
the temperature on the day of the launch was far lower than had been the case with previous launches: below freezing at ; previously, the coldest launch had been at . although the ice team had worked through the night removing ice, engineers at rockwell still expressed concern. rockwell engineers watching the pad from their headquarters in downey, california, were horrified when they saw the amount of ice. they feared that during launch, ice might be shaken loose and strike the shuttle's thermal protection tiles, possibly due to the aspiration induced by the jet of exhaust gas from the srbs. rocco petrone, the head of rockwell's space transportation division, and his colleagues viewed this situation as a launch constraint, and told rockwell's managers at the cape that rockwell could not support a launch. rockwell's managers at the cape voiced their concerns in a manner that led houston-based mission manager arnold aldrich to go ahead with the launch. aldrich decided to postpone the shuttle launch by an hour to give the ice team time to perform another inspection. after that last inspection, during which the ice appeared to be melting, "challenger" was cleared to launch at 11:38 am est.
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naughty dog is home to the ice team, one of sony's worldwide studios central technology groups. the term "ice" originally stands for "initiative for a common engine" which describes the original purpose of the group. the ice team focuses on creating core graphics technologies for sony's worldwide first party published titles, including low level game engine components, graphics processing pipelines, supporting tools, and graphics profiling and debugging tools. the ice team also supports third party developers with a suite of engine components, and a graphics analysis, profiling, and debugging tool for the rsx. both enable developers to get better performance out of playstation hardware.
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