Word: lox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building and a convenient liquid oxygen (LOX) factory...
...reliable first stage had been modified for the occasion by elongating its tanks to give it more fuel capacity. This required a change in the complicated valve that controls the mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Apparently the rejiggered valve did not work quite right. Either the kerosene or lox was used up too fast, and the flame went out 3.7 seconds sooner than it should have. The toolow boost of the first stage (plus a small aiming error) kept Pioneer III from reaching its intended speed...
...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...Lox: liquid oxygen...
...Lox on the Rocks (humor): a stiff drink...