Word: orbitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orchestras have grown up, spawned offshoots and multiplied; there are 1,400 in the U.S. today, from small-town groups of amateur noodlers to massive metropolitan institutions. Festivals have flowered in tropical profusion. Recordings and TV have created vast new outlets. The jet airplane has catapulted careers into global orbit. Musicians who used to scrape along on 25-week seasons are now working 52 weeks, making far more money, and even demanding more authority in hiring and firing their coworkers...
Technically, a space weapon is defined as one which completes at least one full orbit of the earth, so neither of the new weapons actually violates the treaty. Even so, they probably represent intermediate stages in the development of full-fledged space weapons aimed at earth...
...important thing to realize is that the technical problems that stood in the way of space weapons have been solved. Ever since the late 1950's, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have been able to launch fairly heavy objects into orbit. Until recently, however, it was thought inconceivable that warheads could be delivered accurately in orbital flight. Now both countries appear to have devised such methods...
...Russian weapon, the fractional orbit bombardment system, (FOBS), travels in an orbital path until it swoops down on a target under the impact of a breaking device. It would be simplicity itself to convert the FOBS into a multi-orbital system...
...Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus by 1976. In addition, he has asked for the revival of a relatively modest Voyager program that would place two sophisticated craft in orbit around Mars in 1973 and send two additional orbiters and two soft-landers to the same planet aboard a single Saturn 5 rocket in 1975. Time is already beginning to run out for some of the scientific teams so painstakingly assembled for the U.S. space program. On the day that Saturn...