Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using techniques followed by aero space engineers to simulate the perform ance of the Gemini space capsule, technicians at St. Louis' McDonnell Automation Center fed an IBM 7094 computer a diet of data that included the col lege's projected curriculum, the expected line-up of courses for the students, the size of classrooms, labs, lecture halls and shops, the size of the faculty, and time patterns for classes. In less than 30 minutes, the computer produced a schedule that would keep the instructional areas in use for 80% of the college's 45-hour week...
...SPACE PARK. Off the beaten track, with no waiting line, here fairgoers can wander among satellites (everything from TIROS to Telstar), see the Mercury capsule that took Scott Carpenter into orbit, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, as well as models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that will land on the moon...
...tetroxide as oxidizer) that are "hyper-golic," ignited spontaneously on contact. It is much more powerful than the Atlas that launched the manned Mercury capsules, having 430,000 Ibs. of thrust at takeoff instead of 360,000, and 100,000 Ibs. of thrust in its second stage. The dummy Gemini capsule, weighted with ballast and instruments, was more than twice as heavy (6,950 Ibs.) as a manned Mercury capsule, though lighter than the 8,200-lb. warhead that the Titan II normally carries on a ballistic flight...
Last week's Gemini was expected to burn up in the atmosphere in a few days. It was sacrificed chiefly to find out whether Titan II had been successfully modified for the man-in-space program. It used a different guidance system and many safety devices to protect the lives of the astronauts whom it will carry later in the program. The Titan's engines were modified to reduce its characteristic "pogo-stick" (up-and-down) vibration, which might incapacitate a human crew. Reports came back that everything worked fine...
...Gemini capsules, whose two-man crews will experiment with rendezvous in orbit, are an essential part of the Apollo moon project. The kindergarten schooling of earth orbit maneuvers is intended to train astronauts for the infinitely more difficult moon landing. Next Gemini launch, which is scheduled for late this summer, will test the capsule's re-entry behavior. Unless the program falters, the first two-man flight will come toward the end of this year...