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...said Project Mercury Operations Director Walter Williams. "It was perfect." Waiting inside his Aurora 7 capsule, Carpenter had no problems. With eleven minutes to go, a morning ground haze at Cape Canaveral caused a 45-minute delay. Then the sun burst through, and at 7:45 E.S.T. the huge Atlas missile blazed into...
...consult an atlas you will notice that the town near the (proposed) British terminal is Ashford, not Ashbury, and that on the French side the town is Sangatte, not "St. Gatte." Indeed, as far as I know, the Calendar of Saints does not mention Saint Gatte...
...expanding book publishing. Only last year, after publishing a number of individual books. TIME Inc. established its own book division, with Jerome Hardy as publisher and Norman Ross as editor. In 1961 the new division published 13 titles and sold 3,400,000 copies, including the LIFE Pictorial Atlas and LIFE'S World and Nature libraries series. The division's most ambitious future project is a six-volume history...
Centaur, the nation's first missile to use highenergy, liquid-hydrogen fuel, flunked its first flight test when its Atlas booster shut down seconds after ignition. But by week's end, the trend toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired...
...being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...