Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julie Christie had been my mother I don't think I would have forgotten, but Rita Tushingham unfortunately has. Unfortunately, because it gives Guiness an excuse, however lame, to launch into the three-thousand-seventeen-minute story of Dr. Zhivago and his small circle of intimates...
...three networks will provide live coverage of the Gemini 8 launch scheduled for Tuesday, March 15, and, if all goes as planned, will follow the three-day mission with films of the farthest and fastest walk in history-one and a half times around the world...
What would you do, goes one of the favorite guessing games in Viet Nam, if you were running the Viet Cong? Launch a wholesale terror campaign? Focus on winning the peasants? Toss in the towel and try Laos? Some answers came last week from an unexpected but authoritative source: the Communists themselves...
...spacecraft, whether the experiment was concerned directly with travel to the moon or with lengthy earth orbit, whether an attempt would be made to bring the dogs back-all such matters remained a secret. Clearly the Russians were putting on the dogs to steal headlines from the Saturn IB launch, but beyond that Western experts were barely able to guess what was up with Veterok (Breeze) and Ugolyok (Little Lump of Coal). But they made an effort...
...Western experts knew from past experience that for any precise answers they would have to wait until the Russians were ready to release reliable data. Until then, no one could be sure that the angle of inclination, to say nothing of the perigee and apogee, represented more than a launch mistake or a guidance error. In fact, no one was even sure why Veterok and Ugolyok had been chosen for the voyage. Though dogs are perfectly satisfactory subjects, U.S. scientists plan this fall to orbit a biosatellite loaded with wasps and fruit flies, which react far more quickly and sensitively...