Word: titanically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October, when an Agena rendezvous rocket "backfired" and disintegrated in space, Schirra and Stafford were left sitting in Gemini 6 atop a Titan II on a Cape Kennedy launch pad. They were all dressed up with no place to go. Last week their first attempt to launch was frustrated when a monitoring-cable plug was accidentally jarred loose from the Titan II's tail, causing an automatic shutdown of its engines only two seconds before liftoff. Later investigation disclosed that the engines would have shut down anyway-on either of the first two launching attempts. Workmen had forgotten...
...long ride from the Kennedy Space Center--all NASA's--back to Cape Kennedy--a military complex with some land used by NASA. Bleachers were set up almost 2 miles from pad 19, where Gemini 7 was to take off (because the fuels used in the Titan rocket are poisonous, everyone, even the photographers, are kept at least 7000 feet from...
...majestic Titan II rocket lifted off precisely on schedule, hurling Gemini 7 toward a new chapter in space exploration. Five minutes after Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell Jr. took off, a ground controller exclaimed: "You're right down the slot!" Command Pilot Borman radioed back: "That's the best thing I've heard...
...victory was a fairly auspicious start to the Crimson's season. New Hampshire is no titan of the hoop world, to be sure, but Harvard shot well and committed surprisingly few ball-handling errors for an early-season game. And coach Floyd Wilson seems to have come up with a couple of good players in sophomore Bob Beller and George Neville...
...Titan with Warts. What has been badly needed to give form and focus to the Goethe revival is an important new biography, and Critic Richard Friedenthal has now provided it. In his Goethe (World; $8.50), a best seller in German and the first major book about Goethe to be published in English in nearly 20 years, he takes a hard cold look at the legendary giant of German literature, and he sees, along with a startling collection of warts, a man of universal genius...