Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after leaving earth orbit, the astronauts separated their command and service module (Charlie Brown) from the third stage S-4B rocket. Hurtling through the inky void, they pivoted their craft around and moved back to dock with Snoopy, still nestled in the rocket's nose. As the gap between the two craft narrowed, the newly developed 12-lb. color television camera focused on Snoopy during a live transmission 4,120 miles from earth. "This has got to be the greatest sight ever," said a capsule communicator in Houston. Turning toward the receding earth, the TV camera captured...
...mission at the same time the satellites signal a corresponding increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back to the command module forthwith. They should need no more than four hours-well before the deadly mainstream of protons arrives-to dock with the orbiting command module (whose walls provide protection equal to one-fifth of an inch of lead, more than enough to withstand any anticipated solar outburst). The art of solar forecasting is still so primitive, however, that many flare alerts could turn out to be false alarms...
...exporter. The U.S. balance of payments, which was $990 million in the black at the end of last year, is expected to show a large deficit for the first quarter of the year. The important trade balance may be in the red, partly because of the winter dock strike, but also because of the high cost of U.S. goods to foreign buyers...
...before it had reached the apex of its stardom and therefore before it became financially unfeasible. Saturday night, Jubilarians enjoyed a floating party, complete with band and liquid mixer, aboard a huge pleasure cruiser. Few participants remembers, or care, that for a full hour the boat never left the dock because it failed to pass Coast Guard inspection, and the "authorities" wouldn't release the floating bacchanal...
...mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...