Word: payloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capable of carrying two astronauts and their full baggage, a payload more than twice the vehicle's own earth weight (460 Ibs.), the buggy is a model of efficiency, if not Daytona-like speed (maximum: 10 m.p.h.). The battery-powered car should be able to cross crevasses as wide as 28 in., clamber up and down slopes of 25° and travel up to 40 miles. Each of its four wide-track, wire-mesh wheels is driven by its own gears and a i-h.p. electric motor. In case one motor fails...
...moment of the vote. Although some of the rhetoric was wrapped in unconscionably scary language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel. The plane's astronomical price tag (at least $40 million each v. $28 million for the less advanced Concorde) left doubts that enough buyers could be found to recapture the $1.3 billion necessary to build a prototype...
...that all that the Russians have done to stoke Washington's fears. U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviets last week conducted another test of a key offensive weapon under the seemingly innocuous designation Cosmos 365. They sent aloft a giant S59 rocket, apparently carrying as its payload a mockup of an FOBS (for fractional orbital bombardment system), or space bomb, which could release its deadly cargo on virtually any terrestrial target. The U.S. has no such weapon and no defense against...
Onto the Steppes. To the relief of the Russians, the trajectory was perfect and the terrestrial landing was as flawless as the lunar touchdown. As Luna 16 approached the earth, its shielded payload separated from the mother ship, slowed down in the thickening atmosphere, and released drogue parachutes for the final part of its descent. Twelve days after it had been sent aloft from the giant Baikonur space complex 125 miles away. the lunar package was recovered by helicopter from the bleak, sparsely settled Ap steppes of Kazakhstan in central Asia. While the Russians trumpeted news of their accomplishment...
...postwar boom. (and Nixon was only Vice-President.) Then America's hopes, indeed, the free world's, depended on a frail rocket named Vanguard. But the shiny object could fly only a yard before collapsing inward. The army developed the Jupiter rocket with the spinning Explorer satellite as its payload. The booster was as American as Werner von Braun, but it did not explode and the race to the moon was on. The Russians became nasty and secretive. They sent up a dog which died in space. The Americans sent up a monkey which lived. Yuri Gagarin (now dead) circled...