Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled by the moon into a 70-by 196-mile elliptical lunar orbit. Two revolutions later, a brief 10-sec. burn will change the path to a 70-mi.-high circular orbit. Traveling at 3,640 m.p.h., Apollo will circle the moon once every two hours. For 45 nerve-racking minutes during every revolution-when it is behind the moon and blocked from radio communication with the earth-it will be out of touch with...
...Streaking into the earth's atmosphere at an angle of 6.5° and a velocity of 24,765 m.p.h., the 11,700-lb. command module-all that will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days...
...Narrowing Path. Paradoxically, uncertainty has also helped to create the polarization that is one of the dominant facts of America today. Those attached to the old ideas and ideals cling to them even more tenaciously; those attracted to the new fight for it with greater energy. The path narrows between the new and the old. Today, says Astronomer Walter Orr Roberts, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "it is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist the easy abandonment of concepts, but enough flexibility to be able, when necessary, to switch rather than fight...
Most Los Angelenos have long since given up hope of beating the traffic snarls on the city's freeways. But here's one working girl has the system licked. Every morning, Kim Novak gallops down a bridle path alongside the Ventura Freeway aboard Big Sur, riding bareback ("I like feeling my horse under me-I can tell if he starts twitching and seems nervous") on her way to Warner Bros, studios. While alert drivers gawk, Kim turns into a side street that leads to the lot. There she tethers Big Sur, goes to star in The Great Bank...
...progressive path. He has expressed a genuine desire for ecumenical encounter, particularly with the Orthodox Church. He has continued to inaugurate a series of modest reforms in Catholic life. Last week, for example, the Vatican approved translations of three new alternative canons, or rites of consecration for the Mass-the first major change in that section of the liturgy in 1,300 years...