Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high hopes for saving Skylab contrasted sharply with the earlier gloom that settled over the space community. Barely a minute after Skylab's launch atop a surplus Saturn 5 moon rocket, tiny sensors on the arms of the shield alerted flight controllers to serious problems. Apparently unable to withstand the intense vibrations after liftoff, some and possibly all of the thin shielding around Skylab's Orbital Workshop section suddenly ripped free. As it tore away, it apparently caused one of the twin solar wings on the Orbital Workshop to extend prematurely...
NASA believes the extended wing was then sheared away by the high G-forces on the accelerating rocket. Perhaps because they were not quite sure of the telemetry, NASA spokesmen gave no public hint of any problems. Everything was looking "super good," reported Flight Director Don Puddy...
Lull. The shooting did not noticeably subside until the government ordered rocket attacks by air on a Palestinian camp near the airport shortly before sunset on Thursday. Two Hunter jet fighter-bombers of the Lebanese air force made 14 low-level sweeps over the camp. It was the first time that Arab planes had bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. President Franjieh doubtless felt that the end justified his means. As smoke from the rockets rose over the camp, the ground fighting abruptly died down, not only in the camp area but, seemingly by coincidence, elsewhere as well. Soon after, another...
...lieutenant in charge of twelve men who were guarding a highway bridge ten miles from the capital. His soldiers, he said, were in need of uniforms and rice, and two enemy regiments were waiting a few miles away to seize the highway, thereby securing a level position within easy rocket range of the capital. "In a week or two," said the lieutenant matter-of-factly, "they will come and take the bridge...
Skylab is scheduled to be launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14 atop a giant Saturn 5 booster and sent into a 269-mile-high orbit of the earth. Next day, a smaller Saturn 1-B rocket will loft an Apollo command ship with three astronauts on board into a similar orbital path around the earth. Seven hours later, the astronauts will rendezvous and dock with Skylab. The men will then move into their posh quarters and prepare to remain there for the next 28 days−four days longer than the previous record set in 1971 by the Russians...