Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...section of the U.S. ($2.10 for one 18 by 20 in.). The U.S. Geological Survey sells maps delineating' the world, individual continents, oceans, states, counties, and even the U.S.'s subsurface. Aeronautical and nautical charts are invaluable, and the Air Force, which has already published a pictorial atlas of the moon, is presently preparing lunar charts to the scale of 1 in. to 15.7 miles...
...product of eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers' money was disposed of, largely in ways that have made...
...test stand, a three-year lag in the development schedule, and a $552 million price tag have all earned NASA's liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket such derisive nicknames as "the Hangar Queen" and "the Edsel of the Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved...
Mariner started its historic journey on Nov. 28, 1964, only three weeks after Mariner III failed because it could not jettison its protective shroud. A powerful Atlas-Agena rocket lofted the 575-lb. Mariner IV through Earth's atmosphere, then kicked it loose to take off on its own like a great flying windmill. The spacecraft, freed from a cocoon-like covering, unfolded the four solar panels that powered its instruments by converting the sun's energy into electricity. With those panels deployed, it measured 22 ft. 7½ in. across...
Liquid hydrogen is the fuel for two important U.S. rocket engines-Pratt & Whitney's RL-10 and Rocketdyne's J2. The RL-10 powers the second stage of Saturn 1, scheduled for early Apollo flights; two RL-10s combine to form the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur system built to soft-land Surveyor spacecraft on the moon. J-2 forms the second and third stages of the Saturn V designed for Apollo's man-carrying lunar missions. In the near future, violent but versatile liquid hydrogen may become still more familiar as a fuel for supersonic...