Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soyuz shots last month, for example, apparently fell short of its goal. Two of the craft were equipped with docking collars, but failed to link up. Why? According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, a major component of the planned space station-its large central core-never got off the ground. Reason: no super rockets were available to launch...
...intelligence learned of the mishap through ELINT (for electronic intelligence). Deployed on the ground, aboard reconnaissance aircraft, or inside ferret-type electronic satellites, ELINT's sensors can easily detect large explosions, even at great distances, from the electromagnetic disturbances that they cause in the atmosphere. If added proof of the Soviet troubles is needed, the Russians themselves have indirectly provided it. The chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, last month unexpectedly announced that the Russian effort to land men on the moon had been indefinitely delayed...
University of Arizona Astronomer Ewen A. Whitaker set about to find out. Examining panoramic photographs taken by the spacecraft's TV camera from just 5 ft. off the ground, he saw a pair of large rocks inside Surveyor's crater. Looking further, he noticed that the rocks and two small craters on the floor of the crater were aligned along an imaginary path pointing directly north. "That's all we had to go on, really," says Whitaker. "We had no way of telling the size of these landmarks or the distance between them...
...Montreal's Expo 67, the glittering bubble designed by Buckminster Fuller made the U.S. Pavilion the highest-and most striking-building at the fair. For Osaka's Expo 70, the U.S. has come up with a switch: a ground-hugging shallow dome that will be the lowest pavilion at the fair-so low, in fact, that part of it will be underground...
...took Harvard very little time to establish domination over the Bruins. Barely eight minutes into the first period. Thomas knocked in his fourteenth goal of the season. Bell, who played a marvelous game despite an injury that has been with him since September, drilled a pass that hugged the ground and crossed directly in front of the Bruin goalie. Thomas took it, and kicked into...