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...vehicle to rescue the three astronauts was undertaken. The astronauts shut off the leaking system, and the rescue mission proved unnecessary. On the third and final mission, on Nov. 16, 1973, Astronauts William Pogue and Edward Gibson struggled for three hours outside Skylab in getting a vital radar antenna adjusted and repaired...
...into one-third of the D-and-P silos. Nonetheless, officials in Washington?and particularly at the Pentagon? were worried about their future ability to distinguish MIRVed from unMlRVed rockets when mixed together as they were at D-and-P. The reason: except for a telltale domed antenna, the MIRVed SS-19 silos were virtually identical to the unMlRVed SS-11 holes...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary...
...pole into the house and attach it to the back of the TV set, much as the Bell System installs a new phone. For a monthly fee averaging $7, the viewer can watch up to 36 channels, vs. a maximum of twelve on a set wired to a rooftop antenna. The cable brings in sharp, clear pictures and often enables a viewer to pick up out-of-the-area stations that may show on, say, Wednesday night a movie he missed on the local outlets on Tuesday...
...basic-cable viewer can also tune in a clutch of UHF channels featuring the offerings of stations whose signals are too weak to be picked up ordinarily by antenna. These programs make up a bewildering smorgasbord: sports events (Madison Square Garden, for example, offers to basic cable many basketball and hockey games and boxing matches not shown on broadcast TV), educational, and religious shows. All channels viewable on basic cable can carry advertising...