Word: siting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth. Some 31 hours after liftoff, however, Apollo 12's situation was changed drastically. Conrad fired the 20,500-lb.-thrust service propulsion engine and sent his ship into a "hybrid" trajectory. The new flight path was necessary to set the astronauts down at their landing site on the Ocean of Storms at the right time of lunar day. On this course, too, Apollo could loop the moon and head back if its big engine failed to fire again. But, even so, it might miss the earth by 56,000 miles, marooning the astronauts in eternal orbit around...
Bean will lug Apollo 12's Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to a site up to 1,000 ft. from Intrepid. There the two astronauts will spend an hour setting up five elaborate devices that will test the moon's tenuous atmosphere, measure magnetic fields and also study particles from...
...sailors are now considering the Medford shore of the Mystic as well as a site on the Charles, Woodworth said. The proposed facility would cost $175,000. About one-third of that sum has already been pledged to the club, he said...
This week, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) refused to let the club build its new sailing facility at an MDC-owned site on the Somerville shore of the Mystic River Basin...
...times during the past decade, the University has helped the Friends of Harvard Sailing, the yacht club's alumni supporters, in their efforts to find a permanent site for the club. But after negotiations for several proposed sites on the Charles fell through, Harvard officials told the alumni to find a site on their...