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...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...
...that goal and developed the 800,000-lb.-thrust, liquid-fueled booster engine that has since provided the power for their spectacular out-space shots as well as their ICBMs. The U.S., with a smaller warhead, did not require such massive power, settled on the 360,000-lb.-thrust Atlas engine, still the biggest in the U.S. space arsenal...
...been no more risky than bridge building. Last week at Site No. 2-one of the twelve Atlas missile launching pads being dug near Roswell, N.Mex.-ironworkers began removing the steel outriggers, which stabilized an unmanned Lorain crane poised near the edge of the 172-ft. hole. The huge crane rolled through a wooden railing, toppled over backwards. Then, while crews watched helplessly, the boom toppled and the crane slid over the silo's lip. It hurtled downward, brushed workmen and scaffolding off the sides of the hole, crashed in flames at the bottom, killing a total...
...Algeria, and no two men were ever more ironically type-cast than Pierre Lagaillarde and Pierre Popie. Both from well-to-do families, they grew up as next-door neighbors amid the rose gardens and orange groves of Blida, a small town nestled at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. 32 miles from Algiers...
...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...