Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have yet accomplished rendezvous, even in earth orbit with bases near by and massive, quick-witted computers on hand to do their navigation. The Russians may have at least attempted the trick, but the U.S. has not, and it will not even make its first try until the lagging Gemini program goes into full operation-which will not be before...
...four-year contracts approved by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, each of the 16 astronauts will get $6,250 a year from LIFE and $10,000 a year from Field Enterprises. When more astronauts come along (NASA may add 10 to 15 more men to the Apollo and Gemini programs), they will be offered the same. As in the previous contract, a careful distinction is drawn between information about the space program, which NASA rightfully considers public and not for sale, and the astronauts' "personal stories" - first-person experiences related by the men themselves and members of their...
...than his father, Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., 71. As for McDonnell, its flinty Chairman James McDonnell, 64, would have liked the SST to satisfy his burning personal ambition to build a commercial jetliner. But his St. Louis plant is jammed with orders for F-4 Phantom fighter planes and Gemini capsules, simply lacks the space and specialists to handle the huge job. Jim McDonnell tried last March to take over Douglas to strengthen his position for the SST running, but the Douglas board rejected...
...their flights into space to the high bidder of their choice. The first seven of them went under contract to LIFE, picking up $500,000 for exclusive details of their experience. Last fall President Kennedy endorsed continuation of the policy for the 16 men picked for the moon-bound Gemini and Apollo projects, and Field Enterprises Educational Corp. dropped in a whopping $3,200,000 offer. As part of the arrangement, LIFE agreed to buy exclusive magazine rights from Field. After six months of laborious work on contract details, an agreement was all but signed. But last week the Chicago...
...addition to the $9,500,000 contract for two Apollo simulators, Link has won $39 million in new orders in the past twelve months, including a $1,300,000 award to build the computer for the Gemini simulator and $3,500,000 for a general-purpose space-flight simulator. Link also builds flight simulators for the Grumman Gulfstream, the Lockheed Electra, the Convair 880, the DC-8 and Boeing's 707, 720 and 727 jets. This week Link is working out the final details of a contract to build two simulators for a new NATO antisubmarine patrol plane...