Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Mao Tse-tung took the occasion to launch his toughest, most strident blast at Moscow since the Sino-Soviet squabble began. A 60,000-word broadside in Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel . . . They either make endless concessions to the enemy and thus commit the error of capitulationism, or act recklessly and thus commit the error of adventurism." Peking added contemptuously that Communists like Russia's Khrushchev, Italy's Togliatti and France's Thorez, who advocated "peaceful" revolution...
...habitat to hibernate, the kids-second, third and fourth graders -will soon take up mammals, vertebrates, soil and plant propagation, subjects that most of them meet only vaguely in their daytime studies. At another church, a Douglas Aircraft engineer taught fifth to seventh graders Newton's laws, to launch a course in space and rocketry. Also available for grade schoolers: physics, biology, Spanish and French...
Then comes the crisis of launching. For a few violent minutes, the spacecraft, folded into the nose of its boost vehicle, must withstand an enormous increase of gravity due to acceleration. It is shaken by fierce vibration as heat sears through the shroud that protects it from racing air. Many spacecraft have died during launch, just as human babies sometimes die during delivery...
Getting Explorer aloft was largely a Pickering triumph. He hurried to Washington and hollered at Army generals, urging them to demand permission to launch the satellite. He waved his finger and banged on desks, and the generals gained courage from his indignant earnestness...
Mariner II, golden and gleaming, was ready on the pad by Aug. 27, when Venus was still in friendly position. This time the launch went perfectly. The Agena second stage, with Mariner II in its nose, went smoothly into parking orbit. After 16 minutes, its engine fired again, soaring out on a curving course that would lead to Venus. A few minutes later, a cluster of exploding pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed...