Word: bug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weighing about 85,000 Ibs., the moon bound spacecraft will have three parts: the command module, housing the three-man crew; the service module, with supplies, engines and propellants; and the small landing bug. During the three-day voyage to the moon, the astronauts will make computations and burn fuel to correct their course. They will also take the bug out of the rear of the service module and attach it to the nose of the command module. After arriving in the vicinity of the moon, they will burn a little more fuel to nudge their ship into...
Take, for example, Samuel H. Beer, professor of government, who began parachuting last July at the age of 50. With six static-line jumps to his record--plus one broken ankle--Beer has got the bug...
...space age LOR (Lunar Orbital Rendezvous) has suddenly become one of the big words in U.S. space doctrine. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the first U.S. astronauts will attempt a LOR trip, i.e., land on the lunar surface by piloting a small "bug'' down from a mother ship parked on an orbit around the moon (TIME, June 22). After a spot of exploring, they will take off again in the bug and rejoin the mother ship for the return trip to earth. NASA now thinks that this bizarre-sounding system will prove...
...Their Own. Astronauts trying to rendezvous on a lunar orbit will be on their own. There will be no friendly stations on the moon's hostile surface, no computers to analyze the orbits of the waiting spaceship or of the bug that is trying to join it. Unless the two are close together, their crews will not be able to see each other or communicate by radio; the moon's surface curves so sharply that a few hundred miles of distance will put each of them below the other's horizon. Theoretically they can communicate by relaying...
...practice steps. First will come rendezvous in earth orbit, the crewmen becoming proficient at bringing their satellite capsules together with help from the earth below. Then a spaceship will voyage to the moon, park itself for a while in orbit there and return to the earth. After that, a bug will leave the spaceship and make a practice rendezvous with it without trying to land. Only after this maneuver has been mastered by several successful trials will the first lonely bug attempt to land on the hostile moon...