Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trail Blazer. Following Slayton, U.S. space officials now plan to send astronauts on at least three more three-orbit flights, which will lead up to an 18-orbital shot sometime late this year or early in 1963. With more powerful rockets under development, the U.S. hopes to launch two-man capsules by 1964, keep them in orbit for as long as two weeks (U.S. scientists estimate that the Soviet Union may try a two-man orbital flight most any day). Most ambitious of foreseeable U.S. space flights is Project Apollo, which aims at putting three men on the moon?...
Walter C. Williams Jr., 42, operations director for Project Mercury and the overall coordinator of Glenn's flight, handled the prelaunch and launch operations and all the other ground support activities, including tracking and recovery. He had the final say on whether and when the flight would be made, with authority to countermand the orders of everyone but the range safety officer, who had absolute power to destroy the missile in the first five minutes of flight if it veered off course irretrievably. A short, crew-cut aeronautical engineer, Williams worked in aeronautical research after graduating from Louisiana State...
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr., 37, flight director, controlled Friendship 7 from the moment the Atlas-D roared off the launch pad, had to make the heavy decisions about whether to let Glenn make a third orbit and when and where to bring him to earth if further trouble developed. Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted...
...expression attributed to Astronaut Shepard, is actually Powers' inspiration), and for basking in the reflection of their glory (he always talks in terms of "we," leading newsmen to call him "the eighth astronaut"). Describing what Glenn had for breakfast before last week's launch and whom he had it with. Powers let it be known that he was there, too. "I got there a little late," he confided to newsmen...
Global Greenhouse. While Eltanin's biologists ply their nets and trawls and her radiomen tune for whistlers, meteorologists studying the turbulent Antarctic atmosphere will launch weather balloons from a sheltering hangar on the ship's stern. Oceanographers will study the tossing sea water by measuring its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at all depths ranging up from the bottom. They will chart ocean currents and plunge long tubular probes into the ocean floor. The cores of silt they bring up will give glimpses of Antarctic geologic history over millions of years...