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...destroy enemy satellites, the Air Force wants its own manned satellites. To learn more about man in space, the Air Force wants to be tied into NASA's Project Gemini, the two-man satellite scheduled to fly in 1963. In addition, the Air Force has under preliminary development an aerospace "plane," which would use an air-breathing engine in the atmosphere, switch to rockets in space...
...which is just starting its tests but is already considered a very reliable bird. Its structure is stiffer than the thin-skinned Atlas, and its two stages have thrust enough (430,000 Ibs. and 100,000 Ibs.) to make the next big advance in space, orbiting the two-man Gemini capsule around the earth...
...erratic heartbeat," Air Force Captain Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38, was no longer eligible for a solo ride into space. The doughty Deke will be reassigned to "operational and planning" duties on the ground, though he might take a ride on a rocket as second or third man in future Gemini and Apollo shots...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given ABC the first really detailed look at mock-ups of the new two-man Gemini capsule, the three-man Apollo capsule that will make the first U.S. moon trip and the nuclear Nerva rocket, so powerful that it will eliminate the rendezvous and docking process altogether and make direct trips beyond the moon...
...frequent occasions to do so. Largely because McDonnell farsightedly started designing space capsules long before Washington asked for them, his company won the coveted Mercury contract, a $130 million program. It has turned out 20 capsules so far, last week was busily mocking up a new two-man "Gemini" capsule that is slated for test flying by 1964. More important for the McDonnell balance sheet, President Kennedy recently requested $1 billion to equip the Air Force with the company's 1,600-m.p.h., all-weather Phantom II fighter-bombers, which can fly supersonically at altitudes from...