Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronaut stranded in orbit could transfer to a small lifting body stowed aboard his disabled spacecraft. Detaching the space lifeboat (TIME, March 10), he could fire its retrorocket to drop out of orbit, then glide through the atmosphere to a convenient airport. Larger lifting bodies could ferry men and supplies to space stations and perform orbital missions themselves. The craft's ability to maneuver to an airport and land safely would eliminate the need for the costly 10,000-man recovery force that now must be deployed for each space mission...
Space Coast Guard. There is no shortage of ideas. Martin Marietta Corp. has proposed launching a piloted Gemini rescue spacecraft in tandem with an unmanned Gemini containing three seats. After the twin craft had rendezvoused with a disabled Apollo vehicle, for example, the three-man Apollo crew could transfer to the empty Gemini, detach it from the piloted rescue craft, and return to earth simply by firing their retrorockets...
...payment would, in essence, be the cost of buying the road at a price between $10 and $11 per square foot. But because of legal technicalities, University officials are calling the transfer a "contribution" to the City...
...that "the dream of global union among all nations is as remote and Utopian as ever." We think it is ultimately practical and not Utopian to think of giving a restructured U.N. some appropriate muscle to do its assigned task. We recognize that it would be foolhardy to transfer power to the General Assembly as now constituted, but this should not keep us from researching the question of what the U.N. should be like in order to have a fair chance of fulfilling the hopes of people everywhere for a secure peace with freedom and justice...
...Abrupt Transfer. In Dallas, Stoughton was too overcome to take pictures of the weeping aides in the corridors of Parkland Hospital, but when Johnson went by in a bustle of security men, Stoughton asked where they were going. "The President is going to Washington," came the answer. The title stunned Stoughton, but he quickly decided he should be with "the President." In a commandeered car, he raced to the plane. Afterward, he stayed on as a White House photographer, and then 18 months later, when the Kennedy family was going to England for the dedication of the Runnymede monument...