Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique: the lunar-orbit rendezvous. Houbolt's plan was to leave the mother craft in orbit around the moon while a light, ferrylike craft descended from it to the lunar surface carrying only one or two of the astronauts. Later, the little craft could blast off, rendezvous and dock with the mother ship, and then be left behind in lunar orbit as the astronauts returned to earth...
...younger Spyros expects to achieve even greater revenues with new vessels of a type called LASH (for lighter aboard ship). LASH ships will carry cargo prepacked in 73 barges or lighters, which can be dropped off and picked up in each port; the ships themselves need not even dock. Because LASH ships will spend much less time in port than conventional vessels, the Skourases figure that they will be perhaps three times as productive as ordinary ships...
...astronauts will separate their spacecraft from the S-4B, move about 50 ft. ahead of it, and then turn to face it. During this maneuver, protective panels will be jettisoned from the S-4B, exposing the dummy lunar module (LM) carried in its nose. The astronauts will then simulate docking with the LM-an operation that will be particularly important on the lunar-landing mission next year, when an Apollo spacecraft will dock nose-to-nose with a real LM before taking it into orbit around the moon. Finally, after the astronauts have jockeyed their craft some...
...poured $1.2 billion into the U.S. stock market but also bought $1 billion more of U.S. corporate bonds than they sold. Among exports, chemicals and transportation equipment (notably jet aircraft) have increased substantially, and recently foreign orders for durable goods have picked up. The threat of a mid-December dock strike has prompted many U.S. exporters to ship early. For the longer run, Washington is counting on a slowdown in domestic inflation, combined with an expansion of Western Europe's economy, to lift overseas demand still further...
...highlights of the flight were the docking maneuver and precise rendezvous with the discarded S-4B booster, and the eight successful burns of the service module's powerful propulsion engine. These operations will be essential on a lunar landing mission. While en route to the moon, the joined Apollo command and service modules must dock with the lunar module (LM), which will be carried inside the opened flaps of the S-4B. Later, should the LM become stranded in a lunar orbit on its way to or from the surface of the moon, Apollo would have to rendezvous...