Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights, and to be throttled up and down, producing more or less power as needed...
...city within a city. Harlem is not the biggest black community in the country, but it is the most important, and even today there are memories of the golden days when tourists came from all over the world for a night at the Cotton Club or the Apollo Theater. This four-part series is both a history and a celebration of those storied blocks of uptown Manhattan, a fascinating scrapbook of a lost and almost forgotten time...
...mood of revived expectancy and muted exultation. No hats in the air and no drinks all around as in the old days of A-O.K. lift-offs and jubilant splashdowns. Still, the spirit of the NASA people was lifted by a palpable shot of what Kleinknecht calls "the Apollo spirit, the stuff that made Apollo work." Says he: "I think we've got it going again...
Hail Columbia, officially designated a Space Transportation System (S.T.S.), and known as the space shuttle or the shuttle orbiter for short. The shuttle, to make it even shorter, is the most powerful and complicated craft ever put together by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon are Model T artifacts in comparison. Columbia, with booster rockets and fuel tank, weighs 2.7 million Ibs.; it is controlled by computers loaded with more than 600,000 lines of exquisitely precise program codes; it has pumps the size of trash cans that can discharge superheated gases...
...commander of Apollo 16, John Young was walking on the moon on April 21, 1972, when Mission Control radioed the good news: the U.S. House of Representatives had just approved funding for a space shuttle program. Looking like a great panda in his space suit, Young jumped up and down and then saluted the American flag freshly staked into the moon. Proclaimed Young as millions of TV viewers looked on: "The country needs that shuttle mighty...