Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research, development, testing and evaluation). The Government contracts ladled out for this purpose have been concentrated on the two coasts. In fact, 59% of them have gone to just three states−California (41.3%), New York (12.1%) and Massachusetts (5.7%). But there are other gainers. Florida's Cape Canaveral, not so long ago a little-known stretch of sand, is now an international dateline. Houston, near the water route to Canaveral and New Orleans, has lately been awarded the $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center, and the fast-growing city, already the nation's seventh largest...
...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 of the Apollo Project, the Advanced Saturn (C5) has yet to take final shape, but its most critical segment, the great F-1 engine developed by North American Aviation, Inc., is familiar to thousands of startled Californians as the loudest...
...There the bulky segments of the C-5 Advanced Saturns will be assembled. They will then be taken by barge (the only way they can be carried) to a thinly inhabited area in nearby Mississippi for static testing. Then they will be floated along the Intracoastal Waterway to Cape Canaveral for final assembly and launching into space...
...President, whose vacation does not come till Jackie returns from Italy, last week continued his weekend jaunts to Cape Cod, where he joined in a family celebration of Jackie's 33rd birthday. Otherwise, most of the time at the Cape is devoted to the Kennedys' own Little Olympics. Rain or shine, the unbroken pace goes on from dawn until dusk. The first Kennedy swim of the day on weekends is likely to be at 7 a.m., preceded by a run of a mile or so up the beach. Since sitting down is somehow considered bad form, touch football...
...widely heralded, 36-million-mile Venus spaceship, Mariner I. last week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...