Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, Manzù contemplated such portentous subjects as Venus, Minerva and Apollo, even thought of doing the death of Caesar. But happily he closed his ears to classical echoes and eyed the recent past. Manzù replaced the center of three glass doors side by side in the portal ("It is not the entrance to the subway") with a 3-ft. by 6½-ft. panel depicting Italian emigrants to America. "Ours is a poor country," says he of Italy. "Our people went to America because they wanted to eat." With her worldly goods wrapped in a kerchief, a barefoot...
Traditional Cluster. Propulsion Chief A. O. Tischler of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who watched the firing, pronounced the test "an unmitigated, unqualified, unequivocal, unadulterated success." Such strong language does not match NASA's traditional coolness toward solid-propellant boosters. Its ambitious Apollo program to land men on the moon by 1970 is based on North American's liquid-fueled F-l engine, which generates only 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Five Fls will have to be clustered together to boost the Apollo rocket off the ground...
...rocket off the pad was a giant Saturn, its eight-engined booster still the most powerful the U.S. has ever aimed at space. With deceptive ease it ignited, accelerated and climbed out of sight. A few minutes later, the second stage blasted into orbit. Sizable pieces, which are dummy Apollo parts, detached themselves and moved away, leaving a curious folded apparatus exposed to space. Slowly that great gadget expanded its accordion pleats and flattened into a shiny aluminum wing for the Pegasus of the 20th century...
...eight interconnected engines of the big bird's booster stage are training vehicles on which U.S. engineers are learning to handle the five much larger engines that will boost the Apollo spaceship on its voyage to the moon. Saturn's second stage teaches an even more difficult art. Its six Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines burn liquid hydrogen, which is incredibly touchy to handle, but has an added efficiency that is considered essential for the moon project. The smooth success of last week's launch suggests that LH2 has at last become a routine fuel...
...will be manned by "Gordo" Cooper, 37, and Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., 34, a Navy pilot who learned his aeronautical engineering at Princeton. The Cooper-Conrad flight will be the most critical one of the Gemini program, since a round trip to the moon, as envisioned in the Project Apollo series, will also last about seven days, and NASA officials want to be able to study the effects of such a long period of weightlessness on humans. Plans also call for the men to release a "pod" with a flashing light, and to practice maneuvering their craft around...