Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khrushchev goes on to describe how the Russians developed their first rocket after Stalin's death in 1953. The project was supervised by Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov-"probably our most prominent and brilliant missile designer." Once, Khrushchev recalls, Korolyov reported to the leadership on his work...
...away in spacemen's terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres, seems destined to become the world's most expensive warehouse. Besides equipment for the U.S.-Russian flight, it now houses only the unused spare parts of previous programs-vehicles and rocket stages built for four Saturn spacecraft...
...they launched toward the red planet late last summer. The shots compared favorably with the spectacular photos taken by Mariner 9 in 1972. But the other Soviet Mars probes did not fare so well. Another intended orbiter went shooting by the planet, apparently because of trouble with its braking rocket. A third ejected a landing capsule that missed the planet completely. Another lander, fired from the fourth spacecraft, entered the Martian atmosphere but mysteriously stopped sending signals as it descended. (One theory: it may have been destroyed by the planet's high winds.) Before the signals ceased, Soviet scientists...
...then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sign of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lively! O so soft, sweet, soft...
...Yeah, well I was waiting to go home and I had to take a shit and walked out to the shitter and a rocket hit the hootch I was staying in and killed four guys; imagine that man? I mean, it was a six seater, or something, and I laid down on the floor and then walked back and there were all these fuckers screaming and four of them dead and my suitcase, the one right back there, had holes in it and it still won't close right. Imagine that, man? I have a friend who's very religious...