Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projects, although begun with more modest objectives, far exceeded expectations, the report stated, citing Major Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit flight and the Mariner II probe that relayed a wealth of data about Venus. "With the great Saturn booster due to become operational in 1964-65," Jane's added, "the suggestion that America and the Soviet Union should work together on major projects like lunar exploration is both timely and sensible now that the prospective partners are attaining a measure of equality...
...Once in orbit, the astronauts riding the Gemini's cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets...
...already spent $400 million, and was planning to spend many hundred million more. Even if Dyna-Soar succeeded in returning to earth on glowing wings, McNamara argued, it would do little to ad vance the military use of space. The glider would have been able to stay in orbit for only a few hours; it is not likely that its pilot would have learned anything not already known from NASA's Project Mercury and the X-15. McNamara is now convinced that controlled re-entry and landing can be investigated better by smaller, cheaper vehicles, steered by instruments...
Brief summaries of each decade inform the reader of newsworthy events: the Titanic sank and the tango began, nylon appeared in stockings and then disappeared into parachutes; dry ice and penicillin were invented; Sputnik went into orbit...
...equipment being installed in the trailer has previously been used in the observatory building for receiving data from satellites in polar orbit. The Air Force has launched six such satellites for the Space Radio Project from Cape Kennedy, Fla., and Vandesburg Air Force Base, Calif...