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RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
Rendezvous with Rama, also offers film makers enormous opportunities for awesome props. Its true protagonist is not a person at all but a huge artificial world that sails into the solar system in the year 2130. At that point in space/ time−to make that abominable locution perfectly clear...
Controllers quickly determined the cause of the symptoms: a line from the tank containing the oxidizer necessary to fire the thrusters had apparently sprung a leak. That mishap-coupled with the earlier loss of oxidizer from a unit in one of the other four-nozzle clusters when a valve jammed...
As the order went out to begin the preparations, the shape of the proposed rescue became clear. Cape Kennedy's Pad 39B would have to be hastily readied for another launch. The Apollo rescue ship would have to be stripped of other gear to accommodate five passengers instead of...
Young Skelton is as concerned as Hemingway was with "a good death," but he is contemporary in knowing that there is no such thing. "There are no tremendous deaths any more. The pope, the president, the commissar all come to it like cigarette butts dropped to the sidewalk." Still, he...