Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists who developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System). After a year's testing aboard a converted cargo ship, SINS racked up an accuracy score of less than half-a-mile deviation, and recently has narrowed that down to about an eighth of a mile...
...Author Verne's space ship was launched in 1862 just 115 miles west-southwest of Cape Canaveral...
...should ship Carl Rowan to Russia," a small-town attorney angrily urged the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 212,873). The Tribune's prizewinning Reporter Rowan (TIME, March 4) was raising tempers all over Minnesota last week. When somebody invited him to make a speech in one rural community, the town fathers promptly refused use of the school auditorium. Jeered a rural editor: "If Rowan visited a town where a funeral and a wedding were taking place simultaneously, he'd go straight to the funeral...
...gravitational pull is one-sixth as strong as the earth's, which means that unless a spaceship is braked in some way, it will hit the moon's surface at 5,000 m.p.h. Since the moon has no appreciable atmosphere that can be used for braking, the ship will have to cushion its fall by burning precious fuel in its rocket engine. To take off from the moon will cost fuel too, about one-sixth as much as was needed to escape from the earth. So an earth-to-moon spaceship will have to carry a very large...
TANKER CUTBACKS are hitting U.S. shipyards because oil-import curbs have slashed ship charter prices. At Newport News, Bethlehem and Sun yards, $130 million in ships ordered by independent Greek contractors (Onassis, Livanos, Goulandris) has been canceled...