Word: rocketted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko has turned to that most blatantly capitalistic of occupations, making movies. He stars in Take-Off, a film about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, celebrated by the Soviets as a pioneer of space travel. One Moscow critic called Yevgeni's performance patchy. Nevertheless, Yevtushenko gushed that playing the rocket man "left a tremendous imprint on my own destiny." It was tough, declared Moscow's Establishment poet, to play someone "far more interesting, better and more important than I am. I had to concentrate all my inner resources, find everything good in my soul...
Keep hiking down Mass Ave and you'll reach MIT, which resembles a prestigious center of technological education and research. Actually, unless you're despondent because you chose Harvard and now yearn in vain for the chance to make rocket fuel, this area is boring...
...bought out Drake's interest and founded Windsurfing International Inc. Today the firm employs 80 at its Marina Del Rey factory and will turn out 12,000 boards this year. There are a wider, more stable version for kids and beginners ($595), the standard model ($745) and the "Rocket," with foot straps for better control at high speeds ($795). Sailrider Inc. of South Salem, N.Y., this year will produce 3,000 units of a similar craft ($679) made of cy-clolac, a high-impact plastic, which along with its rig weighs 60 Ibs. Windsurfing International has licensed a Dutch...
...giant multistage rocket, discarded piecemeal after a single mission, was the only way of doing the job. That the job should be done was a political decision, made by a handful of men. As William Sims Bainbridge pointed out in his 1976 book The Spaceflight Revolution; a Sociological Study, space travel is a technological mutation that should not really have arrived until the 21st century. But thanks to the ambition and genius of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, and their influence upon individuals as disparate as Kennedy and Khrushchev, the moon-like the South Pole-was reached half...
...object can remain poised over a fixed spot on the equator by matching its speed to the turning earth, 22,320 miles below. Now imagine a cable, linking the satellite to the ground. Payloads could be hoisted up it by purely mechanical means, reaching orbit without any use of rocket power. The cost of operations could be reduced to a tiny fraction of today's values...