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Only the Saturn booster was tested last week; the upper two stages of the rocket were dummies filled with water for ballast. Saturn is scheduled to make its first operational flight in 1964, will have enough power to orbit a ten-ton satellite around the earth or dump a four-ton load of instruments on the moon. By 1966, an advanced model 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...
Ford Motor Co.-whose Aeronutronic Division has contracts worth $40 million for an antitank missile, multipurpose booster rocket, and the outer casing of a moon-probe vehicle-recently bought the $400 million-a-year Philco Corp., mainly for Philco's space-age electronics business (prime contractor for the Army Signal Corps Courier communications satellite, tracking and command equipment for the Discoverer satellite...
...washed out of the hotly competitive appliance business and swung heavily into defense work, it vowed to pass up flashy Government contracts that offered more publicity value than profit potential. Avco figured that it lacked the know-how in liquid rocket engines to bid for the upper-stage Centaur booster, lacked the size to manage the complex Dyna-Soar space vehide. Instead, it bid successfully for products that Avco itself developed: gas-turbine engines for helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales out of products that came off its own drawing boards...
...days I commence my senior year, but not before reading The Catcher in the Rye for the fourth time. It's sort of a booster shot...
Died. Overton Brooks, 63, longtime (24 years) Democratic Congressman from Louisiana, a diligent booster of the military reserves and since 1959 chairman of the House Space Committee; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...