Word: rocketted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would the rocket crew feel while the rocket was accelerating? They would lie barely conscious on their contoured G-couches ... The men would be expected to rise from their beds of pain (not knowing which end is up) and perform navigation feats that would tax a professor of celestial mechanics...
...Apollo-Soyuz is an example of former enemies cooperating to achieve something that could benefit both sides." Indeed, the spectacle of Soviet and American space scientists working in tandem would have astonished our 1952 cover writer who reported that "the cold war has thrown a blackout over all rocket research. Not one man on earth who knows the latest developments can talk freely about them." Correspondents covering Apollo-Soyuz found the Soviets still obsessed by secrecy, but they did divulge more information than on any previous launching. In Moscow, TIME'S Gordon Joseloff assessed detente propaganda surrounding the mission...
Traveling in a slightly lower orbit and at a higher speed, Soyuz will gradually pull away from Apollo. Some 38 hours later, it will fire its braking rocket and enter an arcing course back to earth. At 6:51 a.m. E.D.T. next Monday, Soyuz is scheduled to land under its single giant parachute east of the Kazakhstan launch site. The Americans will remain in orbit another three days before their Pacific splashdown on July 24, performing a variety of different chores-some aimed at understanding more about the earth...
...exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to escape stiff new tax laws. "I can't imagine going to live in Geneva," he says. "There is nothing there but people who've gone to Geneva." He would rather spend time worrying about his new record label, Rocket, which gives its artists much larger than standard royalties. It is a way of paying a debt to his profession, and though it is not a new idea, it is one to which Elton is uncommonly devoted...
...Wembley. With a personal assistant and two anxious salesmen in tow, he begins inspecting gold necklaces. "Should the necklace go to Brenda?" he asks rhetorically. "No, the necklace goes to Connie; it's a purse for Brenda." Brenda Russell is a back-up singer; Connie Pappas is with Rocket...