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Word: deflectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat, and a sound beyond description rolls across the desert. The flame hits a steel deflector 130 ft. below, spreads in a wide fan, and pushes ahead of it a dense cloud of smoke, steam, dust and rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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