Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reliability tests that extended over a period of five years, Aerojet and NASA technicians fired SPS engines some 3,200 times without a malfunction before qualifying them for manned flight. Although the total firing time on the Apollo 8 mission was scheduled to take no more than seven or eight minutes, the combustion chamber was designed to operate for 121 minutes. During tests, it actually held up for more than 30 minutes without burning...
During the flight of Apollo 6, the SPS engine took over from an S-4B stage that failed to restart, and by itself propelled the unmanned spacecraft to an altitude of more than 13,000 miles. On Apollo 7, its first manned flight, it was started eight times. Thus, when Borman, Lovell and Anders embarked on their mission, they had a pretty good idea that their little engine could perform its tasks flawlessly...
Even so, Walter Heller and other eminent economists maintain that inflation will continue to plague the U.S. for years to come. The task for 1969 is to gain stability without losing much of the very real progress of the past eight years. As former Eisenhower Economist Raymond J. Saulnier notes: "A stabilization program always risks recession...
...imbalances, the economy seems healthy enough to continue expanding despite obvious problems and pressures. In 1969, the U.S. is likely to experience more of what it has had for the past eight years: continued monetary alarms and inflation at a somewhat lower rate-but no recession...
Warhol has implemented the notion not only through painting and constructions, but by making plotless, purposely boring films like Empire, an eight-hour lenticular contemplation of the Empire State Building. Such creations can be viewed as a form of extremely arch satire, although they also encourage the viewer to experience familiar objects in fresh ways...