Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of negotiations, the State Department thought that it had succeeded several weeks ago in arranging the exodus. The U.S. was to pay Cubana Airlines some $250,000 to fly the Americans and their 1,700 dependents to Mexico City, where the refugees could be transferred to U.S.-bound...
Equipped with everything that it will carry to the moon except the astronauts and their sleeping couches, the Apollo system, weighing 56,900 lbs., or more than seven times the Gemini spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Kennedy riding the nose of a 22-story-high Saturn 1 rocket. After separating...
Exploding Confetti. N.A.R. laid down a safety code calling for the use of preloaded, factory-made model rocket engines instead of home-mixed propellants, recovery parachutes in the birds, and 13 other pointers on the gingerly care of miniature Titans. Among the strictures in the pledge: "My model rockets will...
Groping for Gravity. Last Wednesday the orbiter's Atlas-Agena boosters lofted the 850-lb. craft into a parking orbit, where it coasted for 28 minutes while ground computers honed its next course. Then, high above the Indian Ocean, the second-stage Agena engine reignited and kicked the orbiter...
Pay-Dirt Passes. If all this works, the spacecraft will then be tracked for three to seven days in order to determine whatever variations exist in the moon's gravitational field. At the same time, the orbiter's systems will be checked out by transmitting pictures of the...