Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...synchronized with the weapons-guidance system. In December 1959, three years ahead of schedule, the first Polaris sub, the George Washington, was commissioned. Six months later, the sub radioed to Atlantic submarine headquarters at New London, Conn.: "Out of the sea-to target-perfect," signaling the first live launch of a missile from a submerged craft...
Ominous Shortage. Using the knowledge of orbital mechanics that had been refined during earlier Gemini missions, Young and Collins gradually maneuvered toward a rendezvous with the Agena 10 target vehicle that had been placed in orbit with a precise launch just 100 minutes before their own blastoff. They established radar contact with the Agena 10 during their second revolution, finally sighted the target some 50 miles ahead and 17 miles above. After rising to meet the Agena and nudging Gemini's nose into the Agena's receiving collar, Young coupled the two ships...
...happens to Tony Randall on his way out of a police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
...single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots, who wrench into tight turns and deep dives that the SAMs cannot follow...
...France and Russia will engage in "regular consultations"-period unspecified-and install a symbolic "white line" between their capitals like that already linking Washington and Moscow. In addition, they signed two accords calling for Franco-Russian cooperation in science and space, including an agreement for the Russians to launch a French satellite...