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Cigar-Sized Jets. The first of seven unmanned Surveyors that Hughes Aircraft built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged...
Yet, says Author Troebst, in the event of catastrophe, nothing is so important for survival as native wit and will. He recalls the case of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada...
Life aboard Gemini 4 settled into a routine that seemed almost mundane after Ed White's excursion into raw space. Yet even as the mission con tinued to circle the earth, there was new Project Gemini activity. Work had begun at Cape Kennedy to mount and prepare another Titan...
White's excursion was the outstanding feature of a 62-orbit voyage which end Monday afternoon, when the capsule, containing White and James McDivitt is scheduled to parachute to earth. The sight is the longest, the highest and the most ambitious yet attempted by the United States.
Clyppan & Hit. But even the most casual reader can be repaid by Hogben's excursion through the history, and past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said...