Word: verticale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At speeds varying from I/10th to 1 m.p.h., the crawler inched along its steel treads while its 16-man crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1°...
As spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record-nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA's Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last week, the mammoth Saturn 5 rocket, an engineless version of...
Shortly after dawn on the day of the rollout, a 456-ft.-high door in the Vertical Assembly Building slid slowly open. Inside the eight-acre, 52-story structure, the locomotive-size diesel engines of a giant crawler-transporter thundered into life. Positioned underneath the 36-story Saturn rocket and...
Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman...
"I wanted to hold the emotion," says Newman, "rather than waste it on picturesque ecstasies." There is nothing programmatic or descriptive about the resulting 14 Stations, put on view last week in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Each measures 68 in. by 72 in., contains ever so slight variations of...