Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aboard her jet, Rosalynn answered questions about her mission...
...many aspects of science. Frank Press (scientific adviser to Carter) has persuaded the President of the importance of basic research, developed some of the technical aspects of SALT II, and remains an important link in explaining the treaty to the scientific community. Bruce Murray, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab, reflects and influences the objectives and hopes of the entire scientific community...
...chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director of the J.P.L...
...torn capital and flicked on its landing lights. For the last time, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle gazed down upon the bunker that had been his combination home and command post for the past 20 months. Then the chopper alighted at Las Mercedes Airport, where Somoza's private jet was standing by. Moments later, the wan and pasty-faced dictator, drooping with fatigue, was on his way into exile...
...guidance system to fly the bomber. Each model will also have ten freeflight tests. Some will be like last week's exercise, while others will follow a zigzag course from the Pacific back to the Utah range. Should an ALCM go astray, an F-4 Phantom jet flying along would take over its guidance system...