Word: centaurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Space Administration have already been assigned to other urgent space programs, and NASA has no spare funds to order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper stages) in 1961, Centaur (Atlas plus more powerful upper stages) in 1962, Saturn (eight Jupiters clustered together) in 1963, Nova (giant single-chamber rocket) in the mid-1960s...
...Vega and Centaur, both based on Atlas, but with two additional stages. Vega has a section of the Vanguard for its second stage. Centaur's second stage will burn hydrogen, whose high energy, according to NASA's Dr. Abe Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket...
Anyone who takes Ovid for a gentle poet of the hearth will do a double take when he comes to the sadistic eye-gouging battles of the centaurs. One centaur swings a chandelier like an axe and fells another...
...model, under the delusion that he is a centaur, is planning to tour the Parthenon. The suitcase contains a pocket model of the edifice, but this is no substitute for Keats' "Ode to a Grecian...
...increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary Italian sculptor Martini the limbs are almost conical in shape. A more extreme example of this type of form is found in No. 11, "Centaur," which looks like stretched taffy...