Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pink flowers illuminate the De Luxe Antique and Contemporary. A few blocks away, a ruby red couple sizzles in a clothing-store window. And across the street, Rocket Video glows brightly. This is Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, and so striking are the electric patterns stitched across the night that passing cars slow down for a better view. The attraction? Nifty new neon signs...
...explain the principles of escape velocity. But unlike most teachers, who would present the facts and chart out the numbers on the blackboard, Ginegerich felt he had to Illustrate the topic of the day. So he concluded his lecture by zooming out of Science Center D aboard a homemade rocket...
After three American soldiers were killed when the rocket motor of a Pershing II missile caught fire in Germany last January, the Army launched an investigation into the cause. The review, however, disclosed a different kind of peril: the ill-concealed missiles were subject to terrorist attacks. With this in mind, the Army last month sent a letter to Congress stating that the highly accurate weapons were "extremely vulnerable," and requested $1.8 million to improve the security of the approximately 50 nuclear missiles that / the U.S. has already deployed in Germany...
...tritium, two heavier varieties of hydrogen atoms. Scientists hope that when the beams simultaneously hit the pellet, which is smaller than a grain of sand, the temperature of the pellet's outer surface will be raised to 100 million degrees, causing it to vaporize explosively. Just as a rocket is pushed forward by its tail exhaust, the vaporizing surface would exert a force inward, compressing the pellet to a density 20 times that of lead and forcing the nuclei to fuse. In the fusion power plant of the future, Livermore scientists say, larger pellets will be blasted, one after another...
...armor and artillery, the Iranians dug in and fought back. That they had put up a valiant struggle was demonstrated by the burned- out hulks of Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers littering the battlefield. The Iranian infantry, although well armed, carried little more than automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades and had hardly any air or artillery support. After two days of stalemate, the Iraqis broke through and punched toward the east, forcing the remaining Iranians back to the shores of the marshes...