Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although NASA officials had earlier talked of scrubbing the scheduled third EVA (extravehicular activity) because of the extra oxygen and fuel consumed in the delayed landing, they decided that another excursion was possible, and the astronauts prepared to take a final spin on the lunar surface. It would take them north toward Smoky Mountain. Then, after stowing their rocks, film and other paraphernalia in the lunar module and positioning the rover's camera to televise the liftoff, Duke and Young were to fire Orion's upper stage engine and head for a reunion with Mattingly, orbiting overhead...
MITRE--an MIT spin-off--provides the brains behind the electronic battlefield. It calls itself the "systems engineer behind the Igloo White (electronic battlefield) sensor exploitation program." In other words, it figures out how many sensors to use, how many planes, and in what arrangement to maximize their effectiveness in destroying anything that moves. Domestically, MITRE uses this systems-engineering sophistication to coordinate police communications. However, the military insist that the majority of its work be military-oriented because MITRE provides "a degree of expertise unobtainable elsewhere in the country...
...module in event their mission had to be abruptly curtailed. Instead, Young and Duke will use the precious time to set up their equipment and experiments, unfold their car from its Murphy-bed-like perch on the side of the lunar module, and then take off on a brief spin, ranging as far west as two small craters that they have named Spook and Flag. Young will put the rover through a driving test that includes "Grand Prix maneuvers" to determine the capabilities of the vehicle before returning to Orion to end the first seven-hour...
...five grade schools and junior highs, existing buildings are divided into traditional and more venturesome learning groups from which parents can choose, and one freewheeling elementary school spin-off meets in a rented mansion. All the groups are integrated, although some schools more than others stress subjects especially relevant to blacks and Chicanos. At the high school level there are still more distinct educational choices...
...world's 24 time zones. A transistorized depth-finder that tells the Sunday sailor in glowing red numbers exactly how many feet, or fathoms, of water lie under his keel. These futuristic devices, already on the market, are only samples of the dazzling consumer spin-offs from a totally new scientific field called "optoelectronics"-the marriage of modern optics with space-age electronics...