Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apollo's orbital path have been identified, the scientists will be able to map their cause: variations in the lunar gravitational field believed to be caused by concentrations of massive material beneath some craters and seas. With better knowledge of the gravitational field, NASA will be able to plan more accurately the paths of future landing missions, on which errors of only a few feet could be dangerous. The landmark data will also enable navigators on future flights to find their landing sites more easily...
Once he was satisfied with the redesigned craft, Low moved fast. Last August, when it became apparent that the earth-orbiting December flight of Apollo 8 would be delayed by problems with the lunar module, he proposed a bold plan: an Apollo 8 moon orbital mission-without the LM. He was more than convincing, and that is why Apollo 8 got the go-ahead for its historic trip...
...real plan emerged, but that night two of them hung a Czechoslovak flag out of an apartment window, then painted the word Dubcek on the walls of East Berlin's Staatsbibliothek. They were caught a few hours later...
...with the Ivy League's Brown University that includes the exchange of both students and faculty. Owens has also started a remedial course in reading, writing and speaking that is taken by 25% of the students, and a program that he calls a "poor man's Antioch plan," in which students are helped to find course-related summer jobs, many of them in urban ghettos. His students are making the most of these new opportunities: five years ago, about the only career readily open to Tougaloo's graduates was public school teaching and 80% of them went...
...friends in Congress, the commission approved more fee-vee, but hesitantly. The authorization will not take effect for six months, pending congressional review. And the new pay-TV charter contains so many safeguards for the existing industry that the National Association of Broadcasters may no longer oppose the plan...