Word: greenbelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greenbelt...
Releasing the Yo-Yos. Lofted from the U.S.A.F.'s Western Test Range at Lampoc, Calif, on July 4, the daddy longlegs in the sky is a masterpiece of technological ingenuity. It is guided from the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. NASA scientists there had to perform a series of intricate maneuvers before they could call for the unreeling of the satellite's four main antennas. First they had to nudge the 417-Ib. satellite into a circular, near-polar orbit about 3,640 miles above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called...
...Harvard group decides what kind of pictures will be taken daily. Their decision is sent to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and relayed to the Observatory in Cambridge...
Actually, the London ring achieved other goals. In the best planned towns like Harlow, all of Ebeneezer Howard's ideas in Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) were finally implemented. Harlow has a surrounding greenbelt, separation of housing and industry inexpensive garden apartments, and a high level of community facilities. Some of the other new towns, however, resemble housing projects more than Howard's ideal city...
...such test, the snooper successfully detected silver ore particles that scientists had "seeded" in the ground at Greenbelt, Md. In another test, near Mineral, Va., the snooper determined that natural deposits of silver in an old zinc-mining area were too small to exploit economically. Geological Survey Physicist Frank Senftle, who headed the group that developed the snooper, believes that commercial models can be available for use as early as this fall, at a cost of between $25,000 and $35,000 per unit...