Word: descending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gemini spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Kennedy riding the nose of a 22-story-high Saturn 1 rocket. After separating from the Saturn booster, Apollo fired its own rocket engine and soared to a peak altitude of 706 miles over South Africa. Then, as the space ship began to descend, its engine was fired three more times in successful tests of its capabilities...
...have had dozens of reporters descend on me since this thing came up," said Mrs. Salley, "and I have had the pleasure of telling each of them that Jonathan Daniels is a skunk...
...most beautiful beaches, it is also one of the most secluded. The 1½-mile stretch is hemmed in by steep sand cliffs, access is difficult and for some thirty years it has been a hideaway for a quiet band of nudists-men, women and sometimes whole families who descend on weekends and merrily remove their clothes...
...distinct emotion. One is in love; one is at war. To get that point across a director must give us, infant fashion, a moment-to-moment account of the emotion of everyone on stage, Giggles must end in sucked-in breaths of anguish and operatic voices must descend into fiish market bawl. Everyone on the stage last night seemed to have understood this perfectly, and if they did it is because the director understood it first...
...move the gear by whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow the landing gear to rise and descend only when the wheel-cavity doors were fully open. Control of the gear thus had to be removed from the computer. By causing a second short circuit, ground engineers advised, the pilots might manage to circumvent the computer and disengage the landing gear from the cockpit...