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This time the trouble was traced to a layer of insulation in the Atlas-D's giant fuel tank (65 ft. high; 10 ft. in diameter). The insulation had somehow absorbed some kerosene-like fuel, which is mixed with liquid oxygen when the missile is fired. Engineers set about correcting the fault, and space scientists got ready to start the complex preflight tests all over again. Scheduled date for the next...
...much power; at best, scientists estimated, Ranger III might pass within 25,000 miles of the moon-close enough, perhaps, to send back some TV pictures of its surface. Then a handsome lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps, John Glenn, 40, eased himself into his cramped capsule atop an Atlas-D rocket at Cape Canaveral...
...capsule's oxygen-supply system that had caused an earlier postponement. Around the world, 18 tracking stations were ready to follow Glenn's three orbits. In the Atlantic, three flotillas of ships were patrolling back and forth to pick him up at designated landing spots. The Atlas-D rocket had been checked out by an engineer who slowly swung his way up through the maze of pipes and valves that form the missile's innards...
...Kennedy did not neglect strategic nuclear deterrents. He called for a step-up in ballistic missile production, particularly of Atlas and Titan ICBMs; for funds to build twelve more Polaris submarines to be started in '63 and '64, bringing the planned total to 41; for a 1,200-plane operational force of transcontinental bombers (one-eighth of them on continuous airborne alert), and for a step-up in the production of nuclear weapons. He also requested $700 million for civil defense, including a $460 million program for shelter construction in community buildings. His entire 1963 defense budget assumes...
...Could these distant subscribers really care about the new school budget or the fortunes of the high school football teams? Or were they more concerned with any and all news of Abilene's Dyess Air Force Base, a vital Strategic Air Command installation whose ring of twelve underground Atlas missile silos had just been armed with its first bird...