Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half of the book, the drawing improves, while the writing deteriorates dramatically. The gadgets are still fine, but after 1941 the Rocket Rangers attack the Martians screaming "Remember Pearl Harbor!" The Martians acquire slanted eyes and say things like: "First aid she are injurious treating of occidental victim so he no recover before arrival of overtaker! Ichiban jozu...
While the Mexican expedition will make its most important observations in 3 minutes, the Aerobee rocket project will have only 3 seconds to photograph the chromosphere before the moon covers up that narrow layer...
...Acrobec rocke? equipped with special ultra-violet light cameras, designed in part at the Harvard College Observalory, will arrive at NASA's missile range on Wallop's Island, Virginia next week. Edmond M. Reeves and William H. Parkinson, lecturers on Astronomy, are participating in the joint Canadian-British American rocket project that will observe the sun's chromosphere-a thin, outer layer of the sun that is distinguishable only during an eclipsc...
...rocket will have to lift off within a specific five or ten second period known as the "launch window," rise to an altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
More than jobs will be lost. After delivery of the last of the 15 Saturn 5s already purchased, NASA plans to suspend production of the mighty rockets. Seven of the eight remaining Saturns will be used for lunar landings, spaced six (instead of four) months apart. The last scheduled mission-Apollo 20-will be scrapped altogether and its rocket used in 1972 to launch an earth-orbiting, three-man space station. Unmanned flights will also feel the squeeze. Project Viking, the long-awaited mission that will land two life-detecting probes on Mars, has been postponed two years, from...