Word: takeoff
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...Weightlessness had long ceased, and the mounting overload pinned me to my seat. It kept increasing and was greater than during takeoff. The ship started to spin, and I informed the ground of this. But the spinning, which worried me, soon stopped, and the rest of the descent went normally. All the equipment had worked splendidly, and the ship was headed precisely for the selected landing area. At 10:55 the Vostok, having circled the globe, landed safely in a fallow plowed field of the collective farm, Lenin's Way, southwest of the city of Engels not far from...
...turning a valve. With an earsplitting racket, superheated steam from decomposing hydrogen peroxide jetted out of two down-pointed nozzles and slowly lifted him off the ground. In a 15-sec. flight he cleared the Army truck and made a perfect two-foot landing 150 ft. from his takeoff. The Army, which is paying for Bell's Rocket Belt, is still uncertain about its military value on earth, but Bell spokesmen see a grand future for it when the U.S. has colonized the moon, where gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth. By releasing...
Both Time and Newsweek have used the statement. In Time, it was one of a number of items used as a takeoff for a plea to abandon the "nineteenth century concept" of non-intervention. According to one of the writers of the statement, the article is "a misrepresentation of our position." Newsweek devoted is full article to the statement, its main point being that Harvard was pitted against Harvard...
...agonizing minutes after Freedom 7's takeoff. President Kennedy tensely watched his television screen; finally, when word came that Alan Shepard was alive and apparently healthy, the President sighed with relief, smiled, and said: "It's a success.'' That the U.S. had been willing and confident enough to attempt the flight in public view was a fact that could only impress the world. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph, in apt summation of the gamble's payoff: "Technically, the Americans were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Nobody can doubt that Commander Shepard really...
...direct-cycle system, designed by General Electric, is cumbersome and requires excessively heavy shielding as protection from radiation. The air passing through the reactor picks up a fraction of the fission products and exhausts it to the atmosphere as fallout during takeoff, landing and normal flight. As a result, it is unlikely that the aircraft could be operated from normal commercial or military airfields...