Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pioneer Venus 1 will travel more than halfway around the sun, flying outside Earth's orbit for the first three months, then crossing inside Earth's orbit for the last four months of a circuitous, 480 million-km (300 million mile) journey to Venus. This flight path will lessen the accelerating effect on Pioneer of the sun's gravity. As a result, the ship will make its approach to the planet at a lower speed than if it had taken a more direct route across space. Thus a smaller retrorocket will be needed to slow Pioneer down...
...slightly less expensive journey than it used to be: car owners may be notified by first-class mail instead of the registered letters that Government agencies required in the past. But in postage alone, AMC will spend close to $40,000. Other costs could push the total bill to $3 million, a real burden for long troubled AMC, which earned only $2.7 million - peanuts for an auto manufacturer - in the last quarter...
...victor of the regional will then journey to Omaha for the eight-squad College World Series, which begins June...
...flag on the pole. The next morning, jubilant members of his support team, who had made five airdrops of supplies along the way, landed beside him in a small plane. Uemura, 37, was full of apologies for taking two weeks longer than he had anticipated to make the grueling journey. Said he: "I'm awfully sorry I was delayed, but I finally got here...
Reaching the North Pole on May 1, he remained for two days and was then airlifted back to Ellesmere Island. Following a one-week respite, he is scheduled to leave on yet another pioneering dog-sledge journey that will take him 1,660 miles on a north-south trek through the icy interior of Greenland...