Word: launching
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...space agency will fly planes equipped with infra-red telescopes-both before and after the comet makes its pass around the sun (see diagram). A special comet observatory is being built on South Baldy Mountain, near Socorro, N. Mex. NASA will also launch several rockets carrying instruments to observe the comet from above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mariner 10, an unmanned spacecraft scheduled to be launched on Nov. 3 for a flyby of Venus and Mercury, will transmit a TV picture of Kohoutek. Pioneer 8, another satellite already in orbit around the sun, should be in position...
...most important observations may well be made by Skylab 3, which is still scheduled for launch on Nov. 10 despite problems last week in fueling the first-stage booster. The flight may be lengthened from its original 56 days to as many as 85 days. That will let the astronauts view the comet during the time when it is close by and most influenced by solar radiation: from Dec. 28, when Kohoutek emerges from behind the sun, until mid-January, when it sweeps to within 75 million miles of the earth...
Sumner, firebrand senator from Massachusetts who took to the U.S. Senate floor to launch a direct onslaught on slave-holders, was judged unfit to be professor at the Harvard Law School. He recognized the reason and described it clearly in a letter to his brother: "I am too much...reformer...to be trusted...
...Zayyat: We did not strike first. Israel had begun an imperial task on its own-attacking our cities with impunity, going through the corridors of the Suez Gulf unopposed, raiding Lebanese territory. We had to make it less easy for Israel to launch these excursions into Lebanon, Syria and Egypt at will...
...decision to launch a coup was not an easy one, claimed Leigh, since the military had generally remained outside Chilean politics for the past 41 years. "I tell you, we sweated a lot," he said. "It was like childbirth." The speed with which Allende's government was crushed surprised even the military. "Never did we think we would rule the country so soon," Leigh admitted. "We were not prepared. Now we are in a real emergency. We have no agriculture. We are spending $600 million for food alone. We have a $4 billion debt...