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...contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
...held up for a while because of minor troubles with the capsule's telemetry system. Enos, who is called by his trainers "a meditative chimp," did not seem to mind. Snug in his air-conditioned nest, he waited patiently. At 10:07, the Atlas roared off its pad, climbed above Cape Canaveral and arced toward the northeast. It curved into orbit about 100 miles...
...sadly awry. Where the New York-Miami run had once turned a tidy profit for two airlines-Eastern and National-it became a losing proposition for three. Eastern and National blamed their new losses on the competition from Northeast. Northeast Chairman David Stretch, 53, who is also president of Atlas Corp. (which owns 56% of Northeast's stock), blamed his losses on financing problems. By granting Northeast only a five-year certificate on the Miami route, the CAB frightened the bankers, who would only give Northeast five-year loans (v. the normal seven-to ten-year loans...
Last week, on the heels of a desperate declaration by Northeast that it might have to suspend service within days for lack of fuel money, Hughes proposed that Atlas Corp. sell him its controlling interest in the airline. The CAB has never made any secret of its distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...
...Saturn, boosted by two 1,500,000-lb. North American F-1 engines, is programed to put a three-man spacecraft called Apollo into orbit around the moon. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes to start landing instruments on the moon next year with an improved version of the Atlas missile; it will have a liquid hydrogen engine in its second stage, match the power of Russia's 1,000,000-lb. rockets. By 1967, the U.S. hopes to land men on the moon with the Nova, a rocket still under study that may end up being powered...