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...give an immediate warning of enemy missile firings, the Air Force is banking on Midas satellites, which will detect the launch by sensing the infra-red glow given off by the booster exhausts. To date, however, the Air Force has still not been able to develop reliable infra-red sensors...
...Definition. Despite increased commitment, it is still the unhappy truth that the Saturn C-1 booster- the U.S.'s answer to Russia's big rocket-is still in its test stages. And it is all too symbolic of an American attitude that even last week, while Popovich and Nikolayev were holding the high ground, a handful of striking electricians at the Huntsville, Ala., Space Center stopped Saturn construction dead...
...their families, and at play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts emphasized the human touch; the releases said that Popovich had christened his booster rocket Lastochka (The Swallow) and that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev's fellow cosmonauts, as a gag, slipped a sheet of jokes into his logbook before takeoff; the P.R. men announced that Popovich during his orbits...
...think that there was any technical breakthrough," said U.S. Space Expert Wernher von Braun. "It does not look like the Russians used any new equipment." Von Braun was sure that Russia was still operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...even bigger booster, the Saturn C1, is not a military weapon at all but an integral part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star...