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...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 a 100-mile-high lunar orbit. Then two of the crewmen will crawl into the bug through an airlock and detach...
...hard-luck boat of the trials was Paul V. Shield's Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, which managed to win only four races, suffered a crowning indignity when her 90-ft., extruded aluminum mast snapped during a race with Nefertiti, pitching two crewmen overboard and sending the heavy boom crashing down inches from the head of Designer Olin Stephens. But nobody counted Columbia out; many of her losses were by a margin of seconds. Even hapless Easterner, which won only one race, was not ready to quit, with Olympic Champion George...
Before attempting lunar orbital rendezvous, U.S. astronauts will have to make many 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...
Many of the crewmen were nowhere near so sanguine as their leaders that they would make the full 2,300-mile, 16-hour round trip. Passed from hand to hand were a flood of paperback books about British escapes from World War I German prison camps. One pilot taped a hacksaw blade to the sole of his foot; he was convinced that there would be enough shot-down U.S. flyers wandering around the Rumanian countryside "to call a general election, vote the Germans out, and make peace with the Allies...
After drowning a number of rats in sea water spiked with alcohol, the Yale experts reported that considerable alcohol indeed entered their brains. The dead crewmen could have got their alcohol after the accident from smashed deicing tanks. The bureau vindicated them by reporting that the accident was caused by engine failure...