Word: spacecrafts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lockheed for San Francisco, the flywheels will be revved up to 12,000 r.p.m.-fast enough to drive a fully loaded trolleybus (80 passengers) for six miles. To keep such fast-moving machinery in one piece, say Lockheed engineers, they will use new high-strength steels originally developed for spacecraft and new designs that concentrate the mass of the wheel close to the center...
Correspondent David Lee, who covered the moon landings in the '60s, recently revisited Cape Canaveral and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. His report...
Beyond next year's mission lies the $5.1 billion U.S. space shuttle-a recoverable crossbreed of spacecraft and airplane designed to ferry men, equipment and satellites back and forth between earth and orbit. One of the few signs of future activity at Canaveral is the line of surveyor stakes laid out for a new three-mile runway to land the shuttle on its returns to earth. But the first shuttle is not expected to be launched until around 1979-an eon away in spacemen's terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres...
Mariner 10 spacecraft that last week passed close to the planet Mercury. Employment at the Kennedy Space Center alone has dropped from 26,600 in 1967 to less than...
...they continued their study of the flood of data from Mariner 10 at week's end, the champagne-sipping scientists were elated by the spacecraft's performance. They now think that Mariner may have enough fuel left when it again crosses Mercury's orbit in September to guide the ship over one of the planet's poles, which were hidden from view during last week's flyby...