Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second disaster to strike NASA's pioneering space program in 56 manned space missions. In January 1967, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death while preparing for an Apollo flight when a fire destroyed their capsule during a training drill...
...museums, the rotunda used to be where the sculpture went--bulls and Greeks, and the Hiram Powers slave chastely displaying her fetters to the white copy of the Apollo Belvedere. The Brooklyn Museum, scorning such conventions, has turned its rotunda into a boat show. It is full of small craft of every kind, antic parodies and phantoms of seaside fun, not one of which will float. There is a dory made of concrete and a small runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper...
...this film's influential power lies in its simplicity. The plot has been stripped down as far as possible. Russia has decided to throw its best amateur boxer, Ivan Drago (played by the amazingly-Aryan Dolph Lungren) into the circle of professional boxing. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the bad guy in parts I and II and the helpful friend in installment III, decides to recapture his old glory by fighting the massive Russian in an exhibition match. Drago kills (I'm not kidding) Apollo in the ring, and Rocky sets off to Russia to avenge his friend. One, two, three...
...response, advocates say that SDI research, like the space program, will have spin-offs that benefit private industry. The knowledge gained through Apollo flights helped scientists develop a multitude of products, from miniature computer chips to the cordless Dustbuster vacuum cleaner. Says John Rittenhouse, executive vice president of the aerospace and defense division at RCA: "We're not banking on SDI reaching production. We're banking on the fallout to commercial and consumer areas for the payoff." Technology spawned by SDI could conceivably be used to build better communications equipment, air-traffic-control systems or industrial robots. High-speed computers...
...amount for pure research, as emphasized even by U.S. scientists as well. The point is that in today's prices those appropriations are more than four times the cost of the Manhattan Project (the program for development of the atom bomb) and more than double the cost of the Apollo program that provided for the development of space research for a whole decade--up to the landing of man on the moon. That this is far from being a pure research program is also confirmed by other facts, including tests scheduled for space strike weapons systems...