Mission Control was worried about a warning light that indicated that a heat shield was loose. What problem would a loose heat shield have caused for John Glenn?Without the heat shield, the retro-package's small rockets would not be held in place. Without the heat shield, the capsule would not slow down when it reentered Earth's atmosphere. Without the heat shield, Glenn would not be able to turn the capsule toward Earth for reentry. Without the heat shield, the capsule would not be able to survive the heat of reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.