Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space-powers pool their knowledge, the cost of a manned moon-landing will be more than halved. The Soviet Union already possesses a booster far more powerful than any developed by NASA. Thus the five billion dollar project to produce the Saturn booster could be slowed. Each country has progressed far ahead of the other in some facets of space research; many future advances will undoubtedly complement each other, filling gaps that would have been costly to fill independently and preventing duplication of research. Ruseian-American co-operation would also remove from the cold war an achievement which should belong...
More than that, by the late 1970s the Marines might be using 4,000-m.p.h. Saturn rockets to hurl 1,200-man battalions from the U.S. to global hot spots -for example, from Camp Lejeune, N.C. to Africa in 80 minutes...
Bright with reflected sunlight, and spread across 169,300 miles of space, the rings of Saturn gleam through telescopes as one of the most glorious sights in the sky. They seem as solid and substantial as Saturn itself. But astronomers know better: the great rings are really next to nothing at all. Stars shine right through them, and when they turn edge-on toward earth they vanish completely. This should not be surprising, say Drs. Allan Cook and Fred Franklin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. The beautiful rings, as the two astronomers see them, are less than...
When the earth is between the sun and Saturn and sunlight is falling on the rings from over the earth's shoulder, the rings get suddenly brighter. This effect can be explained by an assumption that the rings are made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter...
Memphis to South America. The cargo that today's rivermen supervise is often exotic: wine gurgles along in stainless steel tanks, and other specially designed barges carry molten sulphur at 280°, methane chilled to -258°, and chlorine under 250 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. The Saturn missile stages designed to travel faster than sound move in and out of Huntsville, Ala., by river...