Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...
There was, however, a mysterious glitch. While Voyager 2 was hidden behind Saturn it developed the space-age equivalent of a crick in the neck, reducing the mobility of its cameras. But the robot had already accomplished most of its goals, and the trouble will almost certainly not prevent use of the cameras on the rest of Voyager 2's flight-past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
...ordinary planet, even the second largest in the sun's family, hardly seems likely to awe or surprise. Yet, remarkably, Saturn still has that power, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft so dramatically showed last November. Swooping within 78,000 miles of the luminous ringed sphere, the little robot sent back a collection of full-color images as dazzling as any ever received from deep space...
...anything Raiders is aiming for. If anything, it's that pop-epic quality of the old double DC comies that the movie aspires to: the epic of the old serials or the best of the careening Tom Swift books in which the young Tom was always building some giant robot or other to mine gold on the moon and/or play tennis. In those worlds, there existed a natural order that we seem to gravitate to naturally. Swift & Company workers admired the hell out of the young Tom, and Tom himself was a benevolent employer even though he wasn't near...
...University's endowment--which settled at an impressive $1.49 billion by the end of fiscal 1980--but Harvard Management Co. nonetheless kept a look out for ways to beef up Harvard's portfolio. The University's increased participation in venture capitalism was symbolized by its recent investment in a robot-systems company, revealed last October...