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...hard against their couches, experiencing a tug three times that of normal gravity, only half of a Saturn launch's g forces. Eight and a half minutes after the spacecraft had left the launch pad, its engines had swallowed up more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Columbia fired explosive charges to spin off its main tank, which disintegrated in a shower of fragments over the Indian Ocean, only ten miles off course, although at a higher altitude than expected. Then Columbia switched to its smaller, orbital maneuvering engines and fired a series of bursts...
Dressed in space suits, the two men ride up the giant service tower, pause for a last briefing and with a chipper, thumbs-up wave climb into their spacecraft. The ship's three main engines roar to life, gulping supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen out of the huge silo-shaped fuel tank As the engines throttle to 90% of full power the spacecraft and tank bend ever so slightly. When they snap back, two solid-fuel rockets strapped to the silo's sides are ignited. Belching flame and smoke, the entire 18-story-high "stack "-spacecraft fuel...
...clear superiority in space technology, as admitted by US military officials. It looks as though space warfare is to be added to the list of US "firsts" in the arms race, after the atomic bomb; the intercontinental bomber; the hydrogen bomb; MIRV; sophisticated anti-submarine warfare, etc. The Soviet Union has propoed several times since the 1950s an international treaty banning the use of outer space for military purposes, but the US has been unwilling to sacrifice its own advantage for the sake of slowing the arms race...
...hope that gene splicing [March 9] produces happier results than the offspring of some previous discoveries of science and industry. We can do without the equivalents of thalidomide, vinyl chloride, PCB, dioxin, napalm and hydrogen bombs. Genetic engineers have not yet shown themselves to be more reliable or mindful of the outcome of their creations than their industrial predecessors...
...technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made it probable that as early as April the shuttle would carry an American into...