Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When the crawler next emerges from the assembly building with a cargo, it will be carrying a complete and checked...
...spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record-nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA's Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last week, the mammoth Saturn 5 rocket, an engineless version of the vehicle that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon, crawled through an impressive catalogue of superlatives. This was the largest rocket in the world, emerging from the largest building in the world, to travel on one of the largest self-propelled land vehicles in the world...
...raised its platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with 200 Ibs. of soap, and onto an eight-lane rock-paved "crawlerway" that led to the launch...
...areas. The move reflected a widespread sentiment in Congress that economies, if any, should trim the new Great Society ventures rather than successful existing programs. Even the President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with herculean effort. Part of a $2.8 billion supplemental appropriations bill for this fiscal year, the rent scheme met determined resistance from Republicans, who argued that it would inevitably require far more than the initial seed money, and from Southern Democrats...
Foolish, nearly plotless, and with all of its explosions timed to go off just a split second too late, Fantomas ends up hors de combat. In its livelier moments, the picture is devoted to a chase involving runaway automobiles, crazy motorcycles, a freight train, a motor launch, a whirlybird, a miniature getaway submarine and an inflatable raft. Making such movies must be more fun than a picnic. Seeing them turns out to be less fun than the funny papers...