Word: saturn
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Graves's short sheaf of stories tells the principal doings of the Olympians from the time Zeus seized power from Cronus (Saturn), son of Mother Earth, to the end of their reign. The author sets this date neatly at A.D. 363, the year in which the last Roman emperor to believe in the Olympians, Julian of Constantinople, was killed in battle. There are a lot of gods to discuss, and the result is that such notable heroes as Achilles and Ajax are ignored, and Odysseus, Paris and Helen are merely mentioned...
Meanwhile, U.S. spacemen are working on huge rockets, Saturn and Nova, with thrusts far greater than any known Soviet rocket, but Saturn will not be ready until 1963, according to present plans, and Nova not until...
Another major gas turbine maker is San Diego's Solar Aircraft Co., which was bought this year by International Harvester Co. Solar turns out four series of gas turbines, including the 1,100-h.p. Saturn, which is the power plant aboard the giant "Overland Train," now being developed by R. G. Le Tourneau Inc. for the U.S. Army...
...boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument package on the moon within six months, and they should be able to make a manned landing within 18 months." The U.S. is hard at work on development of big new chemical boosters such as Saturn (1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust), plans to flight-test cheaper, deep-space electrical propulsion systems in 1962, and hopes to make a manned moon orbit in 1963. But the problems of a round trip across 480,000 miles of space are fantastic. The greatest hazard is cosmic radiation...
Continuing his study of astronomical phenomena. Liller used the density of the planet Saturn, estimated at .72 the density of water. Astronomers have calculated, however, that even if the entire planet were made up only of hydrogen, the lightest element, gravitational attraction of atoms would bind them together so tightly that their density would be far greater than...