Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contend that the Soviets are merely trying to get rid of Safeguard on the cheap. The Russians, they claim, fret that the ABM can be upgraded from a shield for individual silos into a defense for much wider areas against a Soviet counterstrike. That would enable the U.S. to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union with less fear of retaliation, upsetting the nuclear "balance of terror...
...Russians have dramatically demonstrated that unattended robots like Lunokhod 1 -still alive and moving after eight weeks on the moon-may eventually achieve some of the goals of manned flight at a fraction of the cost and with none of the risks to life. Thus, as it prepares to launch Apollo 14 and Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell on man's fourth mission to the moon, NASA is keenly aware that the future of the manned space program may well be riding on the outcome of that shot. A disaster-or a near disaster like Apollo...
...plagued by Meniere's syndrome, a puzzling disturbance of the inner ear, possibly caused by a buildup of fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When his ear improved, Shepard reapplied for active status and spent countless hours in the gym and Apollo flight simulators. Finally, in August 1969, he was designated, along...
...supply expert and extensive reportage for their assigned sections. Virginia Adams, who has been writing in the Behavior section, produced a report for a cover story on Harlem that set te entire mood and direction of the articke. Sydnor Vanderschmidt traveled to Cape Kennedy to witness the Apollo 9 launch and will do so again for Apollo 14. While studying the nature of religious experience, Clare Mead underwent a consciousness-expanding experiment at Manhattan's Foundation for Mind Research; her report became a feature in TIME'S Religion section. Dorothea Bourne has interviewed cover subjects on location...
Moreover, the question of American investment is so ticklish that it is simply not politically feasible to launch a full-scale American aid program...