Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That job is programed for the more powerful-and, so far, much less reliable-Atlas missile. Of three Atlases tested while carrying unmanned Mercury capsules, two have blown up. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration still hopes to work out the Atlas and send an astronaut into orbit by year...
...after a couple of delays, the 88-ft. Mercury-Atlas rocket belched off its launching pad. Forty seconds later, the range safety officer pressed the button that destroyed the rocket, which had deviated badly from its course. In a month of U.S. flops, this was the pffft seen around the nation-and even if, as scheduled, the U.S. sent a man on a long, downrange missile ride this week, the feat would still seem puny in comparison with the achievement of the Soviet Union's Major "Gaga" Gagarin...
John V. Naish, 53, resigned as president of General Dynamics Corp.'s big, highflying (Atlas missile, B58 bomber, Convair commercial jets) Convair division because of "irreconcilable differences in management philosophy." Brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, Jack Naish gave up a profitable investment counseling firm in 1941 to become an aircraft riveter at Northrop, worked up to works manager in five years. In 1949 he joined Convair, shot up to president in 1958. He liked to run his billion-dollar division his own way. Since Frank Pace Jr. took over as General Dynamics chairman, more and more of Convair...
...fast-approaching take-off day for the No. 1 man will be set after a number of further test flights. The latest shot of the capsule, carried aloft last week by an Atlas, was one of the Mercury program's brightest successes. The one-ton capsule got its roughest ride, soared 107 miles high, 1,425 miles downrange at top speed of 12,850 m.p.h. Examination of the battered capsule showed that a man could have stood the ride, so, as they tell each other, the astronauts have practically nothing to worry about...
...bank automation field (TIME, Dec. 5) with magnetic inks and automatic check-sorting equipment. While they aimed most of their new products at office automation, Coleman and Eppert set up a military electronic computer division that snared contracts for computers that figure in such missile and space projects as Atlas, Polaris and Mercury. Adding machines now account for only 6% of sales...