Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensely personal concern to me and to all other airline pilots. But we live within myriad rules and multiple pressures. For example, at New York's traffic-saturated Kennedy Airport, 8,400-ft. Runway 4R has been equipped and designated by the FAA as the main instrument runway. But 14,500-ft. Runway 13R, which provides the length today's jets need to land safely on wet surfaces, has no ILS (instrument landing system). This becomes especially inappropriate considering Kennedy Airport's frequent combination of very low ceilings and visibility with accompanying southeasterly surface winds. In theory...
...which does more than half the heart's work, was too badly diseased. Standing ready in the operating room was a team of doctors and engineers with the one device that might help: a "half-heart" to assist the left ventricle by partially bypassing it (see diagram). An instrument based on the same principle but of different design and materials had been first tried in man 2½ years ago, when Dr. DeBakey used it to keep a moribund patient alive for 3½ days (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), and for only the second time last February, when Brooklyn...
...whirled in orbit around the moon, the instrument-crammed Soviet spaceship Luna 10 was busily recording and reporting man's first continuous supply of data about the lunar environment. Though the Russians did not tell all they learned, the information they did release confirmed that their distant capsule was carrying out its fact-finding mission with singular success...
First on the market is Sony, whose compact, low-cost ($1,345) Videocorder, available since September, has already sold more than 1,000 units. In June, Ampex will introduce its $1,675 home video tape recorder. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. and RCA are working on models that they hope will eventually retail for around...
When the Russians finally broke their silence, they revealed that Luna 10 was in an orbit that took it around the moon once every two hours and 58 minutes. Though the Russians described several devices aboard the craft's 540-lb. instrument capsule, and reported that they were sending back useful information, they made no mention of a television camera, thus lending support to Lovell's conclusion that no pictures were being transmitted...