Word: pads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the clouds over Surveyor all seemed to dissipate. The Atlas-Centaur rocket that hurled Surveyor toward the moon was only one second late in leaving the pad; it followed a near-perfect trajectory that would have placed Surveyor only 250 miles from its target on the moon. The mid-course correction was so accurate that Surveyor actually scored an effective bull's-eye. Only one "glitch" marred the performance: one of Surveyor's two antennas failed to extend fully after the craft left the earth's atmosphere. But even this problem corrected itself. When Surveyor...
...crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When the crawler next emerges from the assembly building with a cargo, it will be carrying a complete and checked...
...spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record-nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA's Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last week, the mammoth Saturn 5 rocket, an engineless version of the vehicle that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon, crawled through an impressive catalogue of superlatives. This was the largest rocket in the world, emerging from the largest building in the world, to travel on one of the largest self-propelled land vehicles in the world...
...platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with 200 Ibs. of soap, and onto an eight-lane rock-paved "crawlerway" that led to the launch pad...
...rewrite the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. The first sentence blithers and blathers and blunders along for five pages and 1,390 words. Reading it can only be likened to the experience of a man who, having lost an election bet, has undertaken to eat a pad of Brillo and is wondering which is the more unpalatable-the steel-wool structure or the pink soapy filling. Sample Farrell: "Time moved slowly backwards through more than one thousand nine hundred and twenty years of A.D., and five thousand years of B.C., through all of the years and years...