Word: apollos
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There is no plan to rendezvous Gemini 11 with either Agena 8 or 10. However, the first three-man Apollo flight, now scheduled for mid-November, probably will seek out one of the two patient Agenas. Soon-the moon...
...tricky first orbit rendezvous over the Pacific with an Agena launched before the Gemini, simulating the critical Apollo-Lunar Excursion Module moon rendezvous...
...dream of weather control emerged with man from the cave, but for most of humanity's existence it has remained only a dream. Primitive man made sacrifices to the elements, often in human blood, and the Greeks made gods of weather's components: Typhon, Zephyros, Apollo. Beginning with the Greek Philosopher Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.), who correctly surmised that climate was generated by solar radiation, there have been thousands of efforts at influencing weather. Now that man is approaching the stage at which some control is possible, the question is not just how he can exert his influence...
...Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...
...Question. Under such conditions, how could an engine in orbit be restarted for a flight to the moon? Engineers speculated that if an Apollo vehicle were accelerated slightly, the inertia of the liquid hydrogen would force it toward the bottom of the tank. To provide that acceleration, they installed controllable, backward-pointing vents at the top of the SIV B's fuel tanks. They hoped that the gases gradually produced by the evaporating liquid fuel and oxidizer could be released into space to provide slight thrust and acceleration...