Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dining table, a shower, a lavatory larger than any commercial airliner's and an 18-in. porthole to provide a view of the earth. To sustain its crews, it carries 720 gal. of drinking water, more than 2,000 Ibs. of food and enough scientific and medical gear for months of experimentation. Both inside and out, it would make a splendid set for a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey or the TV series Star Trek. But it is a real spacecraft called Skylab, which will soon become the U.S.'s first manned orbital space station...
...earth orbit and contains eight separate telescopes for different types of astronomical observations; and 4) the Airlock Module, which serves as a pressurization chamber for sorties out into space and is the nerve center for the entire station; it is equipped with thermal and electrical controls and extensive communications gear, including a teleprinter to receive updated flight plans from Mission Control in Houston...
...word about the mission. But last month, when the Soviet tracking ships Gagarin and Komarov sailed out of the Black Sea, passed through the Mediterranean and headed full steam into the Atlantic, Western observers knew that something was up. The vessels are known to carry elaborate electronic gear and serve as communications links between Soviet spacecraft and ground controllers. Last week these suspicions were dramatically confirmed when the Soviets orbited Salyut 2, a 17¾-ton space lab. At week's end, they were expected to launch a smaller Soyuz spacecraft that would carry cosmonauts to the orbital...
...Administration is hardly without its own weapons in the accelerating fight over controls. The nation's economy is rolling along in high gear, and Nixon could blame any future lurches on legislative tampering, if Congress does indeed give him specific orders to impose broader controls. Moreover, the President is clearly betting that his meat-price ceiling will soothe public alarm about inflation enough to ease the pressure on Capitol Hill for more sweeping measures. Even so, Phase Ill's dismal Act I has turned what once looked like a routine legislative chore for the Administration into another suspenseful...
...they were identified only as "Y" and "S." They claimed that they had flown to within 15 ft. of the Libyan jet, indicating by thumb signals that Bourges should descend and land at Bir Gifgafa airbase in Sinai. Bourges, they said, made the proper response by lowering his landing gear, and his altitude gradually dropped from 15,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. But he also indicated by hand signals that he was turning west in the direction of Cairo. When he picked up speed and refused to land, the Israelis said, the Phantoms first fired in front...