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...Senator, Lyndon B. Johnson drafted the legislation that created NASA. As President, he watched the first Apollo flights take off. Last week in Houston, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center was dedicated on the 65th anniversary of his birth. In a mood of nostalgia under the hot and sullen skies of Texas, Lady Bird unveiled Sculptor Jimilu Mason's bust of her late husband and received a standing ovation as she quietly recalled her personal memories of the space age: "For us, my husband and me and a small group of guests, the news of Sputnik came while...
...Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that those troubles are now well behind them and that a merger between Beech and Grumman could provide a tremendous boost for both companies by mating Grumman's strength in research and development (it built lunar modules for the Apollo space program) with Beech's expertise in general aircraft marketing. Hedrick, 63, will surely be a major force in the new company...
...four-nozzle clusters when a valve jammed during rendezvous with Skylab-left the ferry craft with part of its attitude control system not working. For several nerve-racking hours last week, NASA officials contemplated bringing the second crew of Skylab astronauts home immediately, lest any further deterioration in the Apollo rocket control system jeopardize their chances of a safe splashdown. By week's end the space agency had settled on a different course. For the time being at least, the Skylab team would be allowed to continue its record-breaking 59-day mission. As a safeguard, however, round...
...loss of the thrusters on Apollo's service module was not in itself critical. Experience in NASA'S ground simulators has shown that an Apollo spacecraft can be steered with only one service-module rocket cluster-or even with only the thrusters on the command module. What worried space-agency engineers was the possibility of further deterioration in the propulsion system. The small thruster systems, as well as Apollo's big main engine at the rear of the service module, use the same type of oxidizer. What is more, the chemical had come from the same batch...
...order went out to begin the preparations, the shape of the proposed rescue became clear. Cape Kennedy's Pad 39B would have to be hastily readied for another launch. The Apollo rescue ship would have to be stripped of other gear to accommodate five passengers instead of the usual three and ballasted with 1,000 lbs. of lead to compensate for the resulting shift in the center of gravity. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind, back-up Skylab crewmen, would pilot the craft to a rendezvous with Skylab and probably dock in an emergency port at the side...