Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, NASA will attempt increasingly complex unmanned probes. Two unmanned Mariner spacecraft will soon pass within 2,000 miles of Mars and radio back enough close-up photographs to map about 20% of the Martian surface. In 1973, other Martian orbiters will eject two instrument-packed capsules for soft landings on Mars...
Other scientific benefits will flow immediately from the instruments that the astronauts will leave behind on the moon. As soon as Astronaut Aldrin sets up a seismometer on the lunar surface, for example, a command radioed from earth will activate it by releasing four suspended weights. In the future, whenever a quake or a meteor disturbs the lunar surface, the seismometer's frame will vibrate, while the suspended weights remain immobile. The seismometer, sensing the relative motion between the frame and the weights, will express it as digital data and transmit it to earth. The instrument is so sensitive that...
Dressed in a white tuxedo with black bellbottoms, Soloist Yamash'ta shuffled onto the stage, crouched behind his instruments while Ozawa unleashed a brass-heavy fanfare. After a menacing roll on the bass drum, Yamash'ta picked up speed and energy, began to ricochet from one instrument to another. Hair flopping, arms flying, he nudged, banged, tickled and teased the instruments. At one point he flailed away with both hands, simultaneously blowing onto bamboo sticks, kicking the prayer bells and rubbing his body frenziedly against the gongs. After it was all over, the audience gave him a standing...
...regulation lags behind. As FAA rules now stand, all an operator needs before going into the business is a commercial pilot's license, which can be earned with less than 200 hours of training. Pilots for the major airlines need a minimum 1,200 hours, plus instrument-flying proficiency...
...Eventually, the sisters accuse Grandier of indecent and immoral behavior, which has led to their being possessed by the devil. The charges coincide with certain local political and ecclesiastical intrigues that find Grandier an ideal scapegoat. Despite agonized hours of torture, the priest denies that he is a diabolic instrument, but is burned at the stake anyway...