Word: tli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve minutes after liftoff, a brief boost from the S-4B third stage placed Apollo into a circular 119-mile orbit at a velocity of 17,427 m.p.h. Over the Pacific for the second time, just 2½ hrs. after launch, the spacecraft was cleared by Houston for "translunar insertion" (TLI). Firing for five minutes, the reliable S-4B engine accelerated the ship to 24,245 m.p.h., fast enough to tear it loose from the earth's gravitational embrace and send it toward the moon. At a point 43,495 miles from the moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal...
...tone was laconic and the meaning obscured by space-age jargon, but the message from the Houston ground controller was unmistakably clear to the astronauts "You are go for TLI ' All of the systems aboard their spacecraft and the attached S-4B rocket were operating perfectly, and nothing stood in the way of making the final thrust. As Apollo passed over Hawaii on its second orbit of the earth, the astronauts fired the S-4B engine It was a perfect burn The spacecraft increased its velocity from 17,400 to 24,200 m p h. The speed was enough...
...American salesmen were Charles Bear, managing director of TIME-LIFE International, Stevens DeClerque, TLI advertising director, and Ralph Davidson, European advertising director for TLI. Their audience consisted of the president and top officials of Vneshtorgreklama, the Soviets' sole export advertising agency, and executives of more than 30 foreign-trade trusts including Intourist, the government travel agency; Aeroflot, the national airline; Prodintorg, food; and Soyuzpushnina, furs and carpets. How this unique gathering came about was explained by Bear: "For some time we have followed Russia's apparent desire to increase trade in nonstrategic goods with other countries. We thought...