Word: burn
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What would happen to the station if and when it rounded the moon and headed back to the earth was anybody's guess. It might burn up in the earth's atmosphere or miss it widely, shooting far beyond and returning again. It might make many different swings, perturbed by the influence of the moon. One thing was certain: it would not go into a permanent orbit around both earth and moon. The moon is relatively fast on its own orbit around the earth; by the time Lunik III swung back, the moon would have moved...
Most of the talk early in the term, in fact, dealt with possible difficulties Johnson and Speaker Ray-burn could expect to have in holding the rampant liberals of their large majority in line. The situation, from their point of view, seemed truly formidable. In the greatest landslide since 1936, the democrats gained 15 seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, giving them nearly a two thirds majority in each house, and it was confidently predicted that this preshadowed a new era of immoderate liberalism in Congress. What emerged, however, was far closer to moderate dullness...
Many J.P.L. experiments seem unspectacular. One lab is studying the behavior of solid fuels that will burn at the low pressure that rockets encounter at the outer fringes of the atmosphere. A huddle of men in blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a concrete wall. Reflected in the mirror is a 2-ft. object like an outsized bug bomb. For a few noisy seconds, a blue flame spurts out of the bomb, then turns to a wavering trail of smoke. "It chuffed," says one of the men glumly. "That...
...late 1940s, J.P.L. set a team to work looking for a solid fuel that would be used in long-range rockets. Requirements were that the fuel burn evenly, resist cracking under pressure, and be capable of insulating the thin shell of the rocket from the heat of its own combustion. They hit upon a polysulfide-a rubbery, sticky liquid that could be poured, solidified, then burned at a controllable rate. It worked, and is now the basis for the Navy's Polaris and all other solid-fuel U.S. rockets. The small company that made it, Thiokol, has become...
...hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...