Word: launching
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...Saturn 1-B rocket lifted from its launch pad into the air above Cape Canaveral, Fla., and remained visible for miles downrange last week as it carried three rookie astronauts toward their rendezvous with the Skylab space station orbiting some 270 miles above the earth. The third and final Skylab mission was launched. The unprecedented stay in space may last as long as 84 days and will encompass the Skylab project's most ambitious undertakings...
Although public interest in space has waned sharply since the moon landings, the U.S. is now engaged in perhaps the most ambitious exploration of the solar system since the start of the space age. At Cape Canaveral, NASA last week was preparing for the launch of the Skylab 3 mission, which may become the longest manned space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus...
...while the Skylab mission seemed to be in trouble. Only four days before the Nov. 10 launch date, workmen at the Kennedy Space Center discovered hairline cracks around bolts on all eight stabilizing fins of the Saturn 1-B booster that is to launch the ferry ship toward a rendezvous with the orbiting space station. The cracks may have developed when the rocket's fuel tanks were filled, enormously increasing the weight on the fins. Exposed to Florida's salty air, the fins may have been weakened by corrosion. To avert a calamitous accident after liftoff, NASA officials...
...will carry along some 200 Ibs. of extra food: beverages, catsup and several hundred little high-nutrition food bars (flavors: chocolate, vanilla and raspberry). If all goes well, NASA officials think that the mission could lead to the establishment of permanent space stations-and eventually to their use as launch pads for manned trips to the moon and the planets...
...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...