Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Historic as it was, it was probably the least-watched lift-off yet. Millions of Americans were outdoors on a bright Saturday afternoon, driving in the country or Christmas shopping. Millions who stayed in were glued to football games on TV. They missed a fascinating launch. Rain threatened to scrub the mission until 31 hours before blastoff. A minor pressure loss in a fuel cell soon after the capsule achieved orbit was quickly remedied by switching pressure from the breathing oxygen tank to the fuel-cell oxygen tank. And in the first minutes of Gemini 7's flight, Borman...
...seem tame compared with the planned rendezvous with Gemini 6, which had been scheduled to go up Oct. 25. Gemini 6, programmed to hook up with an unmanned vehicle, was scrubbed after the latter blew up. The cancellation allowed Gemini 7 to be moved up from its scheduled launch in late December, and gave National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials the opportunity to launch 6 and 7 nine days apart in an attempt to achieve the first meeting of manned craft in space. The challenge was to compress the normal launch preparation time so that Gemini 6 could...
What the entrepreneur should do, many millionaires advise, is "launch an enterprise in a market where either nobody is doing anything or the leaders are not very good." As soon as his business begins growing sturdy and prosperous, the owner should either float a stock issue to expand it or sell it out to a bigger company that might be willing to pay generously for a well-established specialty business. With his profits, plus any borrowing he may need, the young entrepreneur can then buy control of a still more promising business...
Opportunities are also plentiful abroad. The Europeans, for example hanker for more and more U.S.-type goods and services. Recently, Americans abroad have begun to launch everything from "heel bars" for Europeans with worn-down shoes to recruiting firms for U.S. businesses seeking European managers for overseas. In many parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, the risk-taking businessman will find waiting markets for housing and manufactured goods, can get attractive investment guarantees from the U.S. Agency for International Development...
...Agena's problems began 368 seconds after launch. At that moment, precisely on schedule, fuming nitric acid fuel began spraying into the rocket's thrust chamber, followed a few milliseconds later by the oxidizer, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. Somehow, too much fuel entered the chamber ahead of the oxidizer. The result was a "hard start" of the Agena's engine, similar to the backfire that occurs when gasoline and air ignite prematurely in an automobile engine...