Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs. Thus the President let it be known last week that he was taking steps to spread the butter-domestic spending-more thinly in next year's budget. He summoned Budget Director Charles L. Schultze for a White House conference-the 29th since June-and ordered him to launch a "more rigorous and searching quest for savings" among Government agencies and to be "even tougher than usual" with requests for new or expanded programs. The Administration's target: cuts of between $6 billion and $9 billion from the total requested by nondefense agencies for next year. The President...
...just like Jack Javits to be crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft cruised out into the middle of the Potomac, Lyndon kidded Jack about "stowing away," then piped him aboard a power launch that put him in the right boat...
Toward the end of the 47th revolution, he scored a space first-the visual sighting of a missile launching. "I see it, I see it," cried Conrad, as the 60-ft. Minuteman burst through the clouds over Vandenberg A.F.B. The Air Force had timed the lift-off to test whether Gemini 5 could locate and photograph such an operation. Several revolutions later, the astronauts spotted a second Minuteman launch from Vandenberg...
...President Johnson made the U.S.'s most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the moon. He also put the U.S. military into the manned space enterprise for the first time. The Air Force, which will control MOL, plans to test-launch some components in 1967, orbit an unmanned lab early in 1968, and send up a two-man MOL later that year. Altogether the $1.5 billion program calls for a series of unmanned test shots and five MOLS...
...used−from transistors to space-suit zippers to fuel cells. A vibration laboratory shakes the very innards out of equipment; a thermochemical complex tests rocket thrusters. In the simulation and training building, an astronaut can climb inside a spacecraft and practice all the functions of a mission, from launch to retrofire...