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...computer. They inevitably lost, for the machine has not only broken the bank at Las Vegas in a test, but also outwits comptrollers and architects in performing such practically profitable jobs as laying out real estate subdivisions. Dozens of other whirring and flashing machines demonstrated how they simulate Gemini space flights, balance million-dollar corporate ledgers in a split second, or tap out a frighteningly human message-"Oh, that tickles"-in response to a rap on the keyboard. Such was the scene at the semiannual Joint Computer Conference, where many of the 5,000 producers, programmers and users in attendance...
...center of attraction if it were closer to the center of the fair. The most imposing array of rocketry assembled outside Cape Kennedy includes the TIROS and Telstar satellites, Scott Carpenter's Mercury capsule with a dummy of the astronaut inside, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, and a foretaste of the future: models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that is supposed to put man on the moon...
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...
...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...