Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign had been under way -haltingly-for weeks, and now the traditional Labor Day launch date came and went with much of the nation in a curiously apathetic and unpolitical mood. TIME correspondents exploring voter sentiment last week kept catching a counter-question: "What campaign?" Such indifference could only please Richard Nixon, whose own campaign may not be exciting anyone, but it commands such a lead that his only concern is to preserve the status quo. It is bad news for George McGovern, who is in dire need of igniting some fires, of conquering the fatal idea that...
Nonetheless, Galvao's announced plans brought dozens of journalists to Luanda for the first time. Eager to display their case before a watching foreign audience, a small group of mostly mulatoo intellectuals decided to launch an attack on Luanda main political prison...
...following year will bring an international launch, with both Russian and American astronauts meeting in earth orbit. Then there will be no more manned flights until 1978, when the space shuttle program begins. The shuttle will operate in earth orbit and will be capable of taking scores of people into space on one flight...
Within six hours Apollo 17 was snugly on its pad and workers were scurrying around it to prepare for the Dec. 6 launch. Cernan and Schmitt will spend three days exploring the moon, while Lieut. Commander Ronald Evans orbits above them. They are scheduled to return to earth on Dec. 19. Then, what President John F. Kennedy called "great, new American enterprise" when he launched the Apollo program in 1961 will finally be over...
...worth taking. Lightning suppression could be used to help prevent fatalities and forest fires, and might even benefit the space program. NASA could eventually employ suppression techniques at storm-prone Cape Kennedy, where lightning bolts have occasionally hit giant Saturn rockets on their pads and once, during a launch, knocked out the electrical system of Apollo 12, threatening the mission with disaster...