Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts and resolved to restore "magic psyche and the spirits of the underworld" to the venture, Mailer, calling himself Aquarius and summoning the aeronautical engineering of his undergraduate days, takes recourse to his senses to give us a dazzling report not only on what he observes-the astronauts, the launch, the press conferences. Werner Ven Braun, and the whole world of NASA and technology-but also himself, a more subdued observer than before, confused and somewhat awed by the discipline and scale of Cape Kennedy and Houston control...
David R. Williams '72, the only undergraduate on the Sane Drug Committee, said yesterday that the group plans to launch an educational campaign to change the public's view of marijuana...
...position was in part conditioned by the attitude taken by Meo General Vang Pao, who controls most of the Armee Clandestine's forces. Vang Pao is generally reluctant to launch offensives unless they are preceded by massive American bombing. He is well known in Laos for his periodic retreats to his base at Long Cheng, where he is said to sulk until his requests are granted. The need to keep Vang Pao fighting had much to do with the CIA's hard line on the bombing...
Recalcitrant Probe. From the very start of the nine-day voyage, the mission was plagued by a succession of nagging glitches that repeatedly tested the patience, skill and ingenuity of both the astronauts and the technicians on the ground. Barely three hours after the rain-delayed launch, the mission was in serious trouble. After cutting Kitty Hawk loose, turning it about in space, and trying to extract the lunar module Antares from the nose of the third-stage S-4B rocket, Command Ship Pilot Stu Roosa encountered a mysterious docking problem. Five times he edged his spacecraft toward the lunar...
This time there was no dispute. Acting NASA Administrator George Low praised Venera's mission as "a significant achievement." And Dr. Charles Sheldon, the Library of Congress expert on the Soviet space program, predicted that the Russians would now launch a modified version of Venera, perhaps as early as April, in an effort to make a soft landing on Mars. That could put the Russians four years ahead of the U.S., which now has no plans for an unmanned landing on Mars before...