Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every astronaut has to do it to see what it is like to be weightless way up there in space. And what's good for the fly-boys has to be valuable for the rocketeers who send them out of this world. So there was Dr. Wernher von Braun, 56, director of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, floating around the cabin of a C-135 jet transport while the pilot flew a precise "over-the-hump" curve to produce 30 seconds or so of weightlessness. Von Braun made twelve of the trips and marveled that...
...enjoyment, not the interment, of art." To do this, he proposed to erase "the barrier between the work of art and the community" with a garden approach for the display of sculpture, plus a single, glass-curtained gallery built on a steel frame with freestanding interior walls. "The architectural space thus achieved," he concluded, "becomes defining rather than confining...
Students living off-campus were criticized for driving older residents out of the City because students living in communal apartments--with four or five of them contributing to the rent--can afford to pay more than a single family requiring the same space...
...calls for underground car parks capable of taking 100 to 500 cars." Above ground, there is only a check-in counter and a bank of elevators. The elevators take cars below to be stored on circular levels, each of which is really a turntable that rotates until an empty space comes to the elevator. When it arrives, the car is parked automatically...
Rotopark is fast (10-25 seconds), durable (it should last 20 years) and relatively inexpensive ($3,500 per car space). Clients in Spain, France, Belgium, Britain and the U.S. are interested in Rotoparks. Two of the systems are already under construction in Zurich and Geneva, where they will handle 30% to 60% more cars than conventional garages...