Word: saturn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagination and severely tested NASA's engineering ingenuity: an eleven-year flight to the very edge of the solar system. On one "Grand Tour," the spaceship would have swooped by Jupiter and with a whiplike assist from that planet's powerful gravitational field, flown past the ringed Saturn and finally Pluto, the outermost planet. In another version, the spacecraft would have used a similar "gravity assist" from Jupiter to swing by Uranus and Neptune instead of Pluto. Scheduled for the late 1970s, the Grand Tours would literally have been once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. The outer planets will...
...NASA and the aerospace industry, the announcement packed all the wallop of a Saturn booster at liftoff. After much backstage deliberation, President Nixon last week ordered the space agency to proceed with its long-planned space shuttle. To be built at a cost of at least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...
...prophesied the symphonic era that followed him but very nearly said the last word on the subject. Von Karajan's distinctive blend of rich phrase and richer orchestral sonority customarily works well. But this time he seems surprisingly nonchalant. His drowsy Jupiter, for instance, might better be called Saturn. The best set of these symphonies remains Otto Klemperer's (also on An gel), and- for crisp, detail-laden sound- George Szell's versions of 35, 39, 40, and 41, recently offered at a bar gain price ($6.98) by Columbia...
Another factor is that the recession severely reduced business travel and caused many family travelers to dally in making vacation plans. Finally, the slow winding down of the Viet Nam War rapidly chopped into the business of the nonscheduled airlines: Overseas National, World, Saturn and others. World's military-transport volume, for example, plunged from $51 million in 1969 to $27 million last year. Hoping to make up for these losses, the nonskeds began competing even more aggressively for passenger business over the Atlantic, offering charter-flight fares as low as $180 round trip in some instances. Today...
...Throne of Saturn, Drury...