Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landing site will be disturbed as little as possible, each of the braking rockets will fire through a showerhead arrangement of 18 nozzles to diffuse the blast. The rocket fuel is also hydrocarbon-free to avoid confusing Viking's life-seeking instruments. When the first Viking foot pad touches Martian soil, it will trip a sensor that shuts off the engines. Eighteen minutes later controllers will know, by signals sent from the lander, if a successful touchdown has been made...
Perched in the nose of a Delta rocket, one of the simplest satellites ever built by the U.S. roared off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week to begin an 8 million-year journey in space. The 2-ft. sphere, placed into a 3,600-mile-high circular orbit, contains no moving parts or electronic equipment and resembles an oversized golf ball. Yet it should provide earthbound geophysicists with a benchmark in the sky that will enable them to measure precisely the rotation rate of the earth and the wobble of its axis, continental drift...
...succeed that I once did." Although troubled by corporate woes, the old hutchkeeper showed only smiles as Girl Friend Barbi Benton, 27, Daughter Christie, 23, and 150 old chums, including Actor Elliott Gould and Author Gay Talese, gathered to celebrate his 50th birthday at Hefner's 30-room pad in Los Angeles. "I'm feeling as good as at any time in my life," he said. "Each decade has seemed a little better...
Bearing charts, they pad quietly down the halls in dark suits, queue up at the big coffee urn near the door and settle in around the long table by 8:30 a.m. "All right, gentlemen, let's start," shouts Treasury Secretary William Simon, the chairman, who still has a whiff of the Wall Street buccaneer about him. For the next 15 or 30 minutes they take the economic pulse all the way from the condition of the winter-wheat crop (better than expected) to the state of mind of Teamster Top Dog Frank Fitzsimmons (angry over...
...external circumstances so as to maximize the productivity of his pen hand. He established a daily regiment: two hours of work in a room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files of index cards which contain each idea...