Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed in were glued to football games on TV. They missed a fascinating launch. Rain threatened to scrub the mission until 31 hours before blastoff. A minor pressure loss in a fuel cell soon after the capsule achieved orbit was quickly remedied by switching pressure from the breathing oxygen tank to the fuel-cell oxygen tank. And in the first minutes of Gemini 7's flight, Borman and Lovell, both 37 and both making their first space journeys, succeeded in a drill that had never worked before. Guided by their own vision, they maneuvered their capsule...
...course, You Can't Take It With You is still propelled by the zany character of the Sycamore family. Grandfather (Donald Moffat) is a business dropout who has devoted 35 years to raising a small colony of snakes in a goldfish tank in the living room. He is related to uncribbed spirits and surrounded by live-in transients. These errant moles of home industry manufacture and explode Fourth-of-July fireworks unperiodically, do ostrichy parodies of ballet, and massacre Beethoven on the xylophone. It does not dawn...
Calm in the Tank. Deep inside the Pentagon, in the National Military Command Center?called "the tank"?first reports of the power failure flashed in from Strategic Air Command headquarters at Omaha and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs. Both reported that eight major military bases in the Northeastern U.S. had suddenly ?and inexplicably?shifted to auxiliary power but that "the trouble was confined to a particular area and not due to bombs or such...
...easier to record what had gone right. Agena and Atlas had separated on schedule, and a secondary engine had fired to stabilize the Agena and ensure that the fuel was positioned correctly in the tanks. Then the primary engine, capable of 16,000 lbs. of thrust, was supposed to kick Agena into a 185-mile-high orbit around the earth. But already ground control was receiving the first ominous signals. In the tank that stored the rocket's oxidizer, pressure was racing up above the red danger line...
...record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...