Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned that the credibility gap follows the cosmic explanation like night follows day." To be credible, a superpower can only exercise its might when its survival or its stabilizing influence against an opposing superpower is really at stake, or when its action is clearly within the major nation's orbit. In short, the U.S. is faced with the increasingly difficult problem of how to use its power, and of knowing when...
...successful Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Perhaps the only consolation for NASA is that the money saved from the two canceled shots (at least $350 million) may be applied to its Skylab program, which, beginning in late 1972, will place a crew of three into earth orbit for 28 days to determine man's ability to survive and work in space for long periods of time...
...week's end the two So viet spacemen landed safely after almost 1 8 days in orbit...
...altitude of 44 miles the mother ship unleashes its offspring; then, guided by a two-man crew, it dives back toward earth, using auxiliary jet engines and stubby, finlike wings to touch down like an ordinary aircraft. The smaller rocket ship continues to soar until it reaches a "parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly approaches its target, and then docks with a huge, slowly rotating space station. Once the passengers -several scientists and engineers, two Congressmen, a doctor and a journalist -have disembarked through an airlock, the ship...
...eliminating the need for cumbersome splashdowns in the Pacific and by allowing expensive hardware to be re-used for perhaps 100 flights, shuttles will sharply reduce the cost of putting men and materiel into space. That price now comes to more than $1,000 for every pound lifted into orbit by NASA's nonre-usable Saturn 5 boosters. Shuttles should reduce the tab to $50 per Ib. or less...