Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of Washington's worried deliberations over Viet Nam and Korea last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk took time out to join Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler on a quiet but urgent mission to Little Rock, Ark. There, in The Coachman's Inn, the two Cabinet members spent a precious two hours and ten minutes with Representative Wilbur Mills in yet another effort to enlist his support for the President's tax bill. Mills, characteristically, was unimpressed...
...Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief of the Fifth Air Force, which has half a dozen bases in both Japan and South Korea. McKee, too, was strapped, for whatever planes were available were either unequipped or out of range for any rescue mission-even though it would take the Koreans a good two hours to tow Pueblo into Wonsan...
...main mission for both ELINT fleets is the systematic collection and classification of submarine "signatures"-the distinctive electronic blend of propeller and engine noises, wake turbulence and magnetic fields generated by each individual sub. Thanks to Pueblo & Co., the Navy has nearly completed a computer-taped "library" classifying Russia's 450 or more subs, from diesel-powered Whiskey-class boats to the new, nuclear Juliett class. In the near future, U.S. naval commanders will be able to draw instant digital readouts that will identify any Soviet sub they can hear...
Thus, in a single test, NASA was able to prove that both LM engines work well, that the descent engine can be throttled in space-the first big operational engine to do so-and that the Apollo mission could be safely aborted, if necessary, during the final descent to the lunar surface. The near-perfect results may enable NASA to cancel plans for a second unmanned LM flight and to move directly into a manned orbital flight-to check out LM's life-support systems-late in 1968. Looking further ahead, LM's success has also raised hopes...
...engineering test that was a preliminary to actual laser experiments during the Apollo moon mission, a group headed by University of Maryland Physicists Carroll Alley and Douglas Currie set up the lasers in four East Coast locations in addition to the two in the West. Each was projected backwards through a telescope-into the viewing end-toward Surveyor's lunar site. The telescopes were used not only to aim the beams precisely but also to further confine the beam of the coherent laser light, which diverges very little even without telescopic aid. Alley estimates that both beams had diverged...