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What may well be the most important goal of military researchers at Kirtland and elsewhere is to project a laser beam that could intercept and destroy a fast-moving intercontinental ballistic missile when it is most vulnerable-before the booster separates from the warhead. Long a subject of fanciful speculation, such long-range rays may soon become possible because of recent technological breakthroughs like high-energy gas dynamic lasers, which produce beams of laser light when their internal gases are rapidly heated, expanded and forced through tiny nozzles at supersonic speeds. Some new lasers have given off bursts of power...
...more signs that the long-discussed Wankel has finally shifted up from being Detroit's vague "engine of the future" to a much more imminent status. The auto industry's growing number of Wankel watchers, including the authoritative trade magazine Ward's Auto World, an early booster, predict that Detroit will be mass-producing rotary engines in three years or so, and that by the end of the decade, more than half of all new domestic cars will be powered by them...
...were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...
Perhaps the most important new piece of equipment required for the mission will be a so-called docking module. To be built by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $50 million and carried aloft in the second stage of the Saturn booster, the cylinder-10 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter-will be pulled from the booster by the Apollo command ship. In position between Apollo and Soyuz during the docking, it will act as an essential decompression chamber for men passing from Soyuz's "normal" atmosphere of 70% nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure...
...control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic brain, can aim itself for a direct hit. The Walleye is employed mainly against bridges and other large targets. An even more sophisticated "EO" (electro-optical) missile called the Maverick has a rocket booster, which enables it to maneuver, so that it can fly into caves where North Vietnamese have hidden artillery pieces and other essential military supplies...