Word: prelaunch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was picked for the nuclear submarine program by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who later assigned him to the prelaunch crew of the submarine Seawolf. "Rickover transformed my life," says Carter. "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates." Today, Carter's aides consider him just as much of a taskmaster as Rickover; the two men often meet...
...high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper of the submarine Seawolf, but when his father died in 1953, he left the Navy to help his family...
...Prelaunch Putdown. Beyond such necessities. Scorpio felt that Aquarius went for the big money because it was an unambiguous way of keeping score-of measuring himself against the competition. There was the possibility that his market value would never be higher. The past two years had brought him to a pinnacle of praise and publicity. He was one of the best. But the fact was that he had never made Jacqueline Susann or Erich Segal-style profits for his publishers...
...then some. If many of the metaphors in Of a Fire on the Moon seemed familiar, if Aquarius often strained for effect and struck false resonances until he reminded one of Dimitri Tiomkin's movie music, there was still much to admire and enjoy. The description of the prelaunch press conference was perfection. There was Von Braun, completely at ease with his Hitler past, translating the question of a German reporter and then bringing the house down by apologizing to the Japanese correspondents that he couldn't do the same for them. Although not the ranking NASA official...