Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian race to the moon, man's most useful achievements in space have come as the result of an unsung project started in 1964: the U.S. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series. Last week the fourth OGO satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 28, was buzzing along in polar orbit without a hitch...
...project has suffered its share of setbacks. After 46 days in orbit, for example, OGO-3 developed a control-mechanism failure and has since operated at only 75% efficiency. But overall, the OGOs have been a resounding success. By week's end, OGO-4 was performing without a sign of trouble. At TRW's Redondo Beach, Calif., plant, scientists and engineers are testing OGO-5 and building OGO-6, both of which will be sent up next year. The entire program will cost about $150 million-mere pennies, considering the dragonflies' scientific achievements...
...follow "the moderate way, as before," but the outlook "is not bright. The pressures are great, particularly the pressures of Arab extremism, which is not helping us solve the problems brought on by the current catastrophe." Hussein declares that he will not allow Jordan to slip into the Soviet orbit, is convinced that Jordan's future is still best served by friendship with the West. He has been encouraged by hints from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that the U.S. might resume military aid to his country...
...down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter, the fast-growing outfit that hired Jacqueline last May, and had her well up in a public-relations orbit before her first flight...
...predecessors, James Bond (Sean Connery) is once again the Fleming fantasy of the British savior. This time he comes to rescue Russia and the U.S., which teeter helplessly on the brink of war. Someone, it develops, has been hijacking both countries' space capsules as they orbit the earth, spiriting them away to places unknown. Both countries accuse each other, unaware that Peking and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are behind it all. Naturally, the only one who can help is 007, who interrupts a love scene in Hong Kong with his Chinese mistress for the tiresome task of saving the world once more...