Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manufactured for Lockheed by Bell Aircraft Corp., the Agena rocket has been used in its original single-shot version as the second stage of the Thor rocket, which has successfully injected six of the eight Discoverer satellites into polar orbits. The Agena is designed to ignite when high in the vacuum of space. This is not easy because few fuels will ignite in a vacuum. Bell gets around the problem by using hypergolic fuels (unsymmetrical dime-thylhydrazine and inhibited red fuming nitric acid) that ignite spontaneously as soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns...
Divorced. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 39, son of the Navy's late polar explorer; by Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 39, daughter of Massachusetts' Senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Lowell, Mass...