Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dwight Eisenhower's distaste for political maneuver brought Richard Nixon to the front as the top party campaigner. Eisenhower included Nixon in Cabinet meetings, and when the President was absent, Nixon presided over both Cabinet and National Security Council. John Kennedy brought Lyndon Johnson closer to security affairs, sent...
Next, the astronauts sent an electronic signal that was supposed to start the Agena's tape recorder, already programmed to fire the Agena's attitude thrusters and begin a series of gentle maneuvers. Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a...
A Steely Embrace. That dark news shadowed a day that had actually seen a considerable technical triumph. The most important part of the flight was the docking maneuver, and Armstrong and Scott were still in their first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21...
De Gaulle's lonely stand dismayed even some senior officials of the French government, for it isolated France from its Common Market partners and reneged on a year-old French proposal for a gold-based collective reserve unit, dubbed Cru. Washington felt that De Gaulle's maneuver was...
"ILS 24." Ordered to St. Louis for ten days of training with a "rendezvous simulator" machine in preparation for the chief goal of their space flight-a complex docking maneuver with an Agena rocket-the astronauts left Houston at 7:35 a.m., with See at the controls. Right on their...