Word: skylab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Making golf clubs was a radical departure for Duclos, who spent 15 years as a McDonnell Douglas engineer, working on the Saturn rocket and Skylab programs. Golf was his passion, and he became convinced that "clubs really weren't designed to take full advantage of the principles of physics." In 1975 Duclos took a leave from his job and began to experiment with club improvements in his home workshop. He first invented a putter with a slot and a white line in the center that helped golfers position their eyes directly above the ball. To finance the manufacture of this...
...Even U.S. observers were impressed. "It's the most powerful rocket in the world -- ever," said James Oberg, a Houston-based expert on Soviet space ventures, after the launch. Unlike the usual Soviet behemoths, he added, "it's a sophisticated technological rocket" comparable to the Saturn V that launched Skylab. The only difference, according to Oberg, is that "ours are rusting in museums and theirs are flying...
...last afternoon of the camp, Astronaut William Pogue, who was in space for 84 days aboard Skylab during the 1970s, came to deliver a sort of commencement address. One might think that a man that long in space might remember some of the enchantments and wonder of it. Pogue does, of course. But he is also the author of a book called How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space? Pogue, an earthy man, told the campers that weightlessness makes your face look funny and your stomach feel awful. It is also a pain to take a shower...
...record: 211 days by Cosmonauts Anatoly Berezovnoy and Valentin Lebedev, aboard the Salyut 7 space station in 1982. The U.S. record is 84 days, set in 1974 by Astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue aboard Skylab...
...real negotiations ever got started." A distracted Kohl did not intervene between his quarreling partners; at one point in the session, to the annoyance of other summiteers, he slipped away to a Greek TV center for a three-way conversation with President Reagan and the West German astronaut aboard Skylab. After the slender hope of a last-minute compromise vanished during the closing summit dinner, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi told the press, "If I may use metaphorical language, we failed to elect a new Pope, and there is black smoke." With the health of the Community hanging...