Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless-as he is well aware-it was just such investigating committees that helped launch the national careers of Estes Kefauver, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon...
...Even launch and training sites have been largely out of bounds for Western journalists. Now, as part of the growing scientific cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Kremlin is be ginning to raise the curtain slightly. Several American correspondents, including TlME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw and Washington-based Aerospace Reporter Jerry Hannifin, have recently been allowed to visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok - Star City - the Soviet Union's cosmonaut-training complex 40 miles northeast of Moscow. Their report...
...Star City is only part of the Soviet space plant. In contrast to Houston, it does not have control of spacecraft during flights. Mission controllers are stationed at the Tyuratam launch site - equivalent to Cape Kennedy - which is located some 1,600 miles away in Kazakhstan. Nonetheless, Star City's role is extremely important...
...dramatic exterior views of Skylab itself. One particularly stunning photograph, taken from the Apollo command ship after the astronauts left Skylab, shows the 80-ton space station circling the cloud-covered earth. The makeshift sunshade, erected by the astronauts after the loss of the original shielding during launch, and the single surviving solar wing on the orbital workshop section are clearly visible. The photographs also offer a close-up view of the damaged equipment, including the pesky aluminum strap from the lost shielding that kept the solar wing locked in place until the astronauts freed it during a space walk...
Power Shortage. As Conrad and his crew ended their second week in space, those chances seemed dim indeed. Skylab's power shortage-which resulted from the jamming of one solar panel and the loss of another during launch, when the orbital workshop's meteoroid and thermal shielding ripped off-had suddenly been compounded by a severe new problem. Two of Skylab's 18 storage batteries had failed...