Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center, located in a poor white neighborhood near a Negro ghetto, is part of the United Church of Christ's Backbay Mission Project, which deals with both inter-city and racial problems...
...decided to work with the Backbay Mission," Blanning said, "because it is an on-going project which offers an opportunity to do constructive work which we can plan in advance...
...where he made 115 parachute jumps, became a parachute instructor, and was one of the first pilots to be selected for training as a cosmonaut. He was courting the girl whom, he was to marry when he learned that he might be sent on a novel and very difficult mission. Told that the mission would not interfere with his marriage, he signed up enthusiastically...
Advanced as the process sounds, it is already at the point of becoming routine and outdatedly slow-good enough for such bread-and-butter missions as re laying messages, photographing the moon, measuring micrometeoroid impact, sending space vehicles past Venus and Mars, monitoring radiation and watching the earth's weather. For the first manned Gemini mission, scientists have bred a new generation of fuels designated "hypergolic"-powerful liquids that explode on contact with one another but require no delicate refrigeration for storage...
...while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real shot. But that's what practices are for, said NASA, holding to its projected launch date of March 22 for the first U.S. two-man mission in space...