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Aerospace's newest mammoth, McDonnell insists, could well prove to be a synergistic compound???a union in which one and one add up to more than two. McDonnell, for example, is building an "airlock" which astronauts hope to couple to a spent-but-orbiting Douglas-built Saturn rocket stage; spacemen would live aloft for a year in the airlock's safe, two-gas atmosphere. Now that Douglas and McDonnell can plan and build that equipment together, the job should become not only easier but more profitable?and the cross-pollination of ideas between two sets of engineers may lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Mr. Mac & His Team | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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