Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rusting in the sun. Bunkers have collapsed. Abandoned shell casings and brittle gas masks litter the barren ground. No other town in the South suffered so severely during the war. In the spring of 1972, when it was encircled by the Viet Cong, at least 1,000 artillery and rocket rounds fell on An Loc every day. Today only a handful of buildings has been restored...
...needle-nosed, liquid-propelled rocket-known in the West as the CSS-X-4, for China surface-to-surface experimental No. 4-is relatively crude. But it showed that China intends to allocate scarce resources to hold its own in what it calls "a world in great turmoil." Said Vice Premier Li Xiannian: "Our tests are aimed at strengthening China's defense against the hegemonist powers...
...space option for nuclear waste is not exactly a new idea. It has long been apparent that the safest incinerator for such material would be the nuclear fires of the sun. But solar burial has one overwhelming drawback: sending a rocket spiraling into the sun with a nuclear cargo would require extremely high speeds and prodigious amounts of fuel, as would the alternative of sending it out of the solar system. The nearby moon, on the other hand, is more accessible, but contaminating that pristine surface would surely create an international furor. Nor would public concern be less...
Following a trajectory that minimized passage over land, the shuttle would carry its hot cargo into earth orbit. Then the crew would deploy a giant mechanical arm and guide the nuclear package, together with a booster rocket, out of the cargo bay. After backing the shuttle a safe distance away, the astronauts would fire the booster, kicking the nuclear package out of earth orbit and hurtling it sunward. The booster would be detached and steered back into the cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about...
...towing two Cuban fishing boats that had been seized for poaching stone crab and conch near the tiny, uninhabited Bahamian island of Santo Domingo Cay. The two jets raked the lightly armed Flamingo with 23-mm cannons, then returned 45 minutes later and sank the vessel with two rocket salvos. As the Bahamian sailors bobbed helplessly in the water, the MiGs roared in low and strafed them. Four of the 19 Flamingo crewmen were missing...