Word: spacecrafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liquid hydrogen is the most effective rocket fuel ever developed. Some 40% more powerful than the kerosene fuel used in the Saturn booster, it will place the Apollo spacecraft in earth orbit, then be used again in the same flight to hurl the spaceship toward the moon. The trouble is, its virtues are not bought cheaply. Its extreme volatility and the - 423° F. temperature necessary to keep it in liquid form make it difficult to deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around...
...giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close look at the behavior of liquid hydrogen in space...
...parabolic antenna in Australia's Tidbinbilla Valley finally got through-near the spaceship's original frequency. Surveyor's transmitter obeyed the order, turned on, and reported in response to queries that all electrical and mechanical systems were functioning once more. Surveyor was again a fully operational spacecraft...
...high school in Maywood, ILL., Astronaut Eugene Cernan, 32, joined Gemini 9 Teammate Thomas Stafford in narrating a color film of their flight and answering students' questions. No, said Cernan, he was afraid there was no room for ladies in the space program at the moment. "The spacecraft is so small and there are so many things to be done, the closeness of working together prohibits women astronauts...
...passenger compartments will be moved back toward the rear wheels. "We're certainly not styling cars to rendezvous in space," says Ford Styling Director Eugene Bordinat, "but to many people this mass in the rear-a kind of capsule look-suggests the triangular or delta look of spacecraft...