Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reached at her home last night, Dr. Derthick characterized her project with the finance commission as a continuation of research that she has been conducting since last fall. She said her research had been concentrated on the problem of Federal impact on state and local government...
...ground, instead of the warm oceans where U.S. astronauts dunk themselves, has its advantages. The Russians may do it primarily because they possess vast areas of flat and almost uninhabited territory, but they also prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with dangerous waves, as they...
Advanced as the process sounds, it is already at the point of becoming routine and outdatedly slow-good enough for such bread-and-butter missions as re laying messages, photographing the moon, measuring micrometeoroid impact, sending space vehicles past Venus and Mars, monitoring radiation and watching the earth's weather. For the first manned Gemini mission, scientists have bred a new generation of fuels designated "hypergolic"-powerful liquids that explode on contact with one another but require no delicate refrigeration for storage...
...program is sponsoring research on a wide range of topics dealing with technological revolution. Methods of forecasting new developments in technology and automation as well as the impact of these developments on labor and industrial structure are under consideration...
Inquiries will also be made into the impact of technological change on decision-making in both government and private industry and on changing skill requirements in relation to educational policy...