Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government, industry and the academic community. Their crowded schedule included meetings in California with Harvard Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer and with Stanford Business School Dean Arjay Miller, a seminar in Phoenix on the problems of pollution, and a tour in Houston of NASA space facilities. In Detroit the visitors listened to a critique of U.S. foreign policy by former Under Secretary of State George Ball, then talked with Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II and President Lee Iacocca. Moving on to Washington, D.C., they discussed trade and politics with Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...launch had touched off a chain of events that would result in disaster for the entire $2.5 billion program. But at week's end, as the crippled Skylab continued to orbit the earth, a combination of space-age teamwork and old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity on the part of NASA raised hopes that the mission could yet be salvaged. In fact, the mishap and the bold reaction to it promised to elevate a relatively monotonous experimental flight into high adventure in space...
...NASA believes the extended wing was then sheared away by the high G-forces on the accelerating rocket. Perhaps because they were not quite sure of the telemetry, NASA spokesmen gave no public hint of any problems. Everything was looking "super good," reported Flight Director Don Puddy...
...time Skylab reached orbit, NASA controllers were sure that it was in trouble. As the 85-ton spacecraft began circling the earth, it jettisoned its protective shroud, moved its telescope mount into place and unfolded the four windmill-like solar wings that sit above it. But indications were that the remaining solar wing on the Orbital Workshop could not swing out more than a few degrees from the ship and was thus not able to unfold its light-gathering panels. That was bad news indeed. It meant that Skylab was deprived of more than half its electrical power. Even...
...abundant element in the universe, which can readily be produced by electrolysis of water molecules. Highly combustible, it has already proved its importance as a space-age fuel: it was a reaction of liquid hydrogen (at a temperature of less than - 350° F.) and liquid oxygen that gave NASA's big Saturn 5 rockets their final boost to the moon. Properly handled, hydrogen might be burned to heat homes, generate electricity or power cars; the only major waste product is water. A more direct use of hydrogen could be in efficient fuel cells -battery-like devices, also used...