Word: saturn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trajectory that will carry it close to Mercury, affording man his first glimpse of the sun's nearest neighbor. And in 1977 and 1978, planetary positions will enable a spacecraft flying by Jupiter to take a gravity-boosted "grand tour" that will also take it on past Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...
...almost pure Kubrick. A surviving spaceman is plunked into a Louis XVI bedroom after a psychedelic zoom through time and space that is mystifying to most moviegoers. But Clarke's novel version of 2001 explains all. As the survivor approached a huge monolith on lapetus, one of Saturn's ten moons, the astronaut entered a "stargate" into a different dimension, dominated by a godlike superintelligence. He is first returned to childhood, then transmuted into pure intellect and transported back to earth, carrying with him all the wisdom of the universe...
...plus power. Our own race, which got off to a bad start with Adam, is the fifth, and it too may be about to expire-or perhaps find strange new powers. In her magically mystical prose, H.P.B. forecast that "occultism must win the day, before the present era reaches Saturn's triple septenary of the present cycle in Europe-in other words, before the end of the 21st century...
Another worrisome problem, the apparent breaking away of two sheet-metal sections (photographed by highflying jets) early in the flight, was apparently solved when NASA investigators decided that the objects were probably thick sheets of paint that had not been properly bonded to Saturn's metal skin...
Helium into LOX. To rid Saturn of Pogo, scientists may inject small amounts of liquid helium into the liquid oxygen (LOX) lines of two of the engines, damping the sloshing of the LOX and thus changing the resonant frequencies of the engines. Or they may place gas-filled cavities beneath the LOX lines of two engines to act as shock absorbers. Either solution would cause two engines to pulse at different frequencies from the others, preventing a five-engine resonant buildup of the Pogo Effect...