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Houbolt argued that the concept would save an immense amount of fuel. Because the lunar lander would not need a heavy heat shield for a return through the earth's atmosphere and would not have to carry additional equipment and supplies for the long trip to and from the moon, it could be tens of thousands of pounds lighter than other lunar landing vehicles. The weight reduction would be great enough, he calculated, for the entire mission to be launched by one Saturn 5-type rocket...
Other than the three Harvard wins it was Yale's meet all the way. Don Schol- lander, swimming in the last dual meet of his college career, was the least of Harvard's worries as he won the 500 freestyle with a relatively slow 4:50.6. Harvard's Bill Shrout was able to keep the pace for about 14 laps of the 20-lap race but in the end Schollander pulled away with easy grace, scarcely rippling the water...
Stung by congressional criticism and aware that everyone had sadly underestimated the complexity of a soft lander, NASA, Hughes Aircraft (which designed and built Surveyor) and Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which directed the project, provided technical advice, and eventually controlled the flights) moved to rescue the floundering program. Increasingly certain that Surveyor's findings were a necessary preliminary to an Apollo lunar landing, NASA loosened the purse strings, enabling JPL to increase its Surveyor personnel from fewer than 100 to 500, Hughes from...
This projected annual income of some $1 billion to $1.5 billion would be used for "the realization of community tasks," for example, the modernization of hospitals and the educational system, which has traditionally been the province of the individual Lander. Other likely areas of expenditure: scientific research, studies of air and water pollution, creation of parks, and planning for backward economic areas. Another advantage, from Economist Erhard's point of view: the German communal fund would coordinate federal and state spending for maximum anticyclical effect on economic booms and busts...
...Chancellor's ambitious plans for the formierte Gesellschaft face formidable obstacles. Under the German constitution, such fiscal reform would have to be approved by the Lander, then gain a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag. Erhard is the first to admit that his ambitious proposals cannot-and should not-be imposed on the nation by fiat. Instead, he contemplates the use of simple public exhortation to civic responsibility-the Seelenmassage (soul massage) that he has used for years to win over West Germans to his programs for social betterment through economic reforms...