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...Gemini 11 's successful flight last week (see SCIENCE) underscored the space race's most tantalizing puzzle: What are the Russians doing? During the past 18 months, while the U.S. has conducted nine Gemini missions and captured virtually all important space records, the Soviet Union has not announced the launching of a single manned space flight...
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 from the Saturn booster, Apollo fired its own rocket engine and soared to a peak altitude of 706 miles over South Africa. Then, as the space ship began to descend, its engine was fired three more times in successful tests of its capabilities...
...rockets peewee size. But enthusiasm and, among the teenagers, an astonishing ratio of intelligence to years, fires them with an ample lift. Last week at the N.A.R. meet, experts from NASA, the Army and the Air Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even...
Such sentiments fly in the face of any 1966 doomsayers (or, in the old Wall Street word, bears) who in their most nervous moments may conjure up images of 1929, when stock values almost overnight plummeted by 50%. To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie. At the time of the Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate...
There is no plan to rendezvous Gemini 11 with either Agena 8 or 10. However, the first three-man Apollo flight, now scheduled for mid-November, probably will seek out one of the two patient Agenas. Soon-the moon...