Word: command
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of the EC-121, the difficulty was as much one of command as communications. Flying under the operational control of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ-1), the Navy plane was more on its own than it could have realized. According to the Pike report, VQ-1 "lost all effective operational control over the aircraft. Army, Air Force and Navy units monitoring the flight of the EC-121 appeared to assume operational control of the aircraft -and if they did not, no one had operational control." The monitoring units detected the aircraft threatening...
Talk and Listen and Act. Another, and more serious, problem is the drift of authority toward Washington. With sophisticated communications equipment available, and the threat of nuclear war always present, local commanders tend to look to the capital for guidance in crises. This Washington reflex is not discouraged by Government officials. They are rightfully concerned with keeping tight rein on the military. As President Kennedy once said: "I don't want some sergeant starting World War III." Yet the Pike report demonstrates that a better balance must be found if local commanders are not to be paralyzed in cases...
...health of the astronauts was described as excellent. Armstrong has lost just under six pounds and Buzz Aldrin three, but neither man has displayed any obvious ill-effects from the gravity-free flight, the lunar stroll or the lunar environment. Mike Collins, who remained behind in the command ship, lost no weight at all. Locked away with 16 other men-including two doctors and a NASA public relations man-the astronauts spent their free hours playing pingpong, watching color TV and reading the accounts of their voyage (which are sent through an air lock and sterilized by ultraviolet light). After...
...command from its computer, Mariner 6's electronic gear poured out an endless stream of data from the red planet-information about the density and composition of its atmosphere and its varying surface temperatures. On board the ungainly, 850-lb. ship, whose four solar panels gave it the look of a stubby windmill, tiny transmitters also sent back to earth, some 60 million miles away, the best close-up portrait man has ever had of Mars. At week's end, an identical twin named Mariner 7 moved into position for similar electronic observations. Mariner 6 aimed its close...
...Mariner 7 caused even greater concern at Mission Control when it went off the air entirely for seven hours. Apparently struck by a tiny meteoroid, the spacecraft lost its fix on the star Canopus and its directional antenna spun away from earth. A new roll-and-search command went up from Pasadena. Mariner 7 obeyed, and though performing at less than capacity, its radio functioned again...