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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...
When a 19th century artist set out to depict the Stations of the Cross, he could fall back on a ready-made iconography. The fifth painting, he knew, must represent Simon helping Christ shoulder the cross. Not so for an abstract painter, who must face the problem of portraying the...
"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...
To Evans, at least, the answer was obvious. When water was pumped deep into the Pre-Cambrian rock around the bottom of the well, he said, it lubricated the surfaces of vertical fractures, allowing the rock faces to slide against each other, causing recurring tremors. The theory sounded good enough...