Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry, owns assets totaling $230 billion, which equals two-thirds of the value of all U.S. corporations, three-fifths of the market value of all corporate stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Each year he spends $3.1 billion for new tractors, trucks, machinery and equipment; $3.3 billion for fuel, oil and maintenance; $1.6 billion...
...back at NASA's Houston control room, Flight Director Chris Kraft's ground crew was growing more and more worried about the unheated fuel for the fuel cells. The pressure kept falling; it was already dangerously low at 180 p.s.i. Because the radar, radio and computer would use up too much power, Chris Kraft decided against any further maneuvers with the pod. He went into a huddle with his fuel-cell engineers Assured that the pressure was far too low for normal operation, Kraft immediately planned for the crew's safety...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...
Please Acknowledge. During the next pass over the U.S., the astronauts were ordered to cut off one of the two fuel cells, in the hope that the maneuver might help the ailing system. The fourth revolution was even quieter than the third. The astronauts were instructed: "If you have had a significant pressure rise, please turn your transmitter up and acknowledge." There was no acknowledgement. The pressure had leveled out at 71 Ibs. The sixth revolution was coming up fast, and a decision had to be made soon. If recovery were delayed even one revolution longer, Gemini would...
...blazing Texas sun, every corridor hums with space-age intensity. Besides directing spacecraft in flight and training astronauts, the Houston center also develops new engineering techniques and supervises the testing of every piece of equipment that will be used−from transistors to space-suit zippers to fuel cells. A vibration laboratory shakes the very innards out of equipment; a thermochemical complex tests rocket thrusters. In the simulation and training building, an astronaut can climb inside a spacecraft and practice all the functions of a mission, from launch to retrofire...