Word: abortment
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...Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted at any given time. Last November, when the capsule carrying Enos, the space chimp, ran into trouble on the second of three planned orbits, Chris Kraft needed just five seconds to decide to abort the mission, timed the firing of the braking rockets so well that the capsule splashed into...
WHRB them applied for program test authority--temporary permission to broadcast until its license is renewed--and asked that the mandatory 10-day waiting period be waived. But the FOC, returning after its August vacation, had a large backlog of eases, and was unable to cut abort the waiting period...
Next morning, through an incredible mischance, the B-26s were over Cuba half an hour ahead of schedule. Boxer's jets were still on the flight deck. But Castro's jets were ready. Two of the B-26s were shot down; others were hit and forced to abort. That was the melancholy...
Seaborg assured his audience that a great deal of ground testing will be done before a fiercely radioactive nuclear rocket is fired aloft. "We must plan." he said, "to handle the maximum credible accidents that might arise in the launching of a nuclear rocket, its malfunction or abort, its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, and the ultimate disposition of the nuclear engines and power units in space. I am cautiously optimistic that solutions are at hand...
...close to the pad, prepared to snatch Shepard from Freedom 7 in case of a disaster on the ground. Besides the cherry picker, a fire-proofed Army personnel carrier stood by with a fire-suited crew. Some four miles from Pad 5, the headquarters of the Cape's Abort Rescue Team was a humming hive of activity. Six helicopters were tuning up, ready to carry skilled technicians, doctors and frogmen to rescue the astronaut if the capsule splashed near by. If the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate...