Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length of a present-day 707, it will carry up to 350 passengers, shoot them as swiftly as an arrow from continent to continent. The bigger plane also means more fuel capacity and greater range. The delta wing sweeps back 30° for a 186-m.p.h. takeoff, folds to 42° for subsonic flight, and comes within kissing distance of the fuselage at a projectile-like 72° angle for supersonic flight. The front of the plane also hinges: the Boeing...
...close of World War II, he bought up small surplus army engines that had been used to operate communications equipment, adapted them for Honda-built power bikes that ran on fuel extracted from pine roots. When the supply of engines dwindled, Honda began building his own, and the groundwork for the present-day company was completed. Honda incorporated in 1948 with working capital of $2,777 and 34 employees. Cycle sales accelerated, the company grew, but Honda quickly tired of administrative and marketing chores, eventually turned them over to Takeo Fujisawa, an intense sales executive who has since risen...
...salvage some engineering telemetry data from the mission. They turned on the craft's landing radar system to check the effect of failing batteries on its operation, then they opened the vents on the liquid helium tanks to test the system that pressurizes Surveyor's rocket fuel. In a last effort, they fired the spacecraft's big retrorocket while it was still 70,000 miles from the moon. The spin rate slowed, but not nearly enough. Then, while the retrorocket was firing, all contact was lost with the ill-fated lunar voyager...
...took their space walks before their open-hatch photography sessions. But Gemini 10 Astronaut Mike Collins, who warmed up by taking photographs through his open hatch first, experienced no apparent difficulties during his space walk; it was cut short only because Gemini 10 began to run out of fuel...
...Chimp Mode" Reentry. Earlier, the astronauts had docked a record four times, but they had used their fuel so efficiently that they had enough left to make a final and unscheduled rendezvous with the Agena. At reentry, Conrad and Gordon were relieved of their duties by a new, automatic re-entry system that the astronauts sarcastically call "the chimp mode." Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer...