Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy. The three feuding princes of Laos -Souphanouvong, Souvanna Phouma and Boun Oum, similarly met in the middle of a bridge over the Nam Lik River in 1961 to launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia met in 1807 to carve up Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia. The precedence problem was solved...
...studied the techniques of Algerian guerrillas. At that time, Nasser had organized forerunners of today's fedayeen among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and used them to stir up the border, a role they took on with sufficient enthusiasm to help bring about Israel's decision to launch...
...emergency measures that they must follow to correct equipment failures. For at critical points during their trip, a balky rocket could leave them stranded in orbit around the moon or drive them into collision with the lunar surface. By-the time they are fired from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A by the world's most powerful rocket, Saturn 5, Borman, Lovell and Anders will be the most thoroughly prepared adventurers ever to have dared the unknown...
...same scientific league with Somnium, a piece of science fiction by Johann Kepler, the famed 17th century astronomer and mathematician who explained the laws of planetary motion. Describing space flight, Kepler called the "initial movement," or launch, "most uncomfortable and dangerous, for the traveler is torn aloft as if blown up by gunpowder." He explained the bitter cold and airlessness of space, discussed weightlessness, and even suggested the equivalent of reverse thrust to land gently on the moon...
...rocket and its designers eventually helped launch both the U.S. and the Russian missile programs, as well as the moon race that was to follow. Even today's liquid-fuel rockets are simply highly evolved descendants of that original...