Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agena's problems began 368 seconds after launch. At that moment, precisely on schedule, fuming nitric acid fuel began spraying into the rocket's thrust chamber, followed a few milliseconds later by the oxidizer, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. Somehow, too much fuel entered the chamber ahead of the oxidizer. The result was a "hard start" of the Agena's engine, similar to the backfire that occurs when gasoline and air ignite prematurely in an automobile engine...
...Peter Skolnik and Sydne Jo Kalet. They make faces together, and sing together, and sometimes she gets angry at him, and he gets down on his knees, and they look at each other real funny, and then she cries, and everybody applauds. They've got as much class as fuel injection...
...easier to record what had gone right. Agena and Atlas had separated on schedule, and a secondary engine had fired to stabilize the Agena and ensure that the fuel was positioned correctly in the tanks. Then the primary engine, capable of 16,000 lbs. of thrust, was supposed to kick Agena into a 185-mile-high orbit around the earth. But already ground control was receiving the first ominous signals. In the tank that stored the rocket's oxidizer, pressure was racing up above the red danger line...
With bulldozers and dynamite, they have moved mountains of sand, built some 40 miles of road, helped construct a 10,000-ft. runway from which the first jets will blast off against the enemy next month (see map). Ammo depots, a ten-tank fuel dump with a capacity of 230,000 gal., and a T-pier are all under construction; next month a floating 350-ft. De Long pier will be towed in from Charleston...
...Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply North Korea with much-needed aircraft fuel for Kim's MIGs, plus antiaircraft missiles like those given to North Viet...