Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists were clearly impressed by the precision of the Soviet guidance system. Because of the rotation of the earth, an orbiting object passes over the spot of launch only once every 17 orbits...
Despite its drive to diversify, E.G. & G. still makes 85% of its sales to the Government. Along with AEC nuclear tests, the company is timing and measuring NASA's nuclear space engine, Project Rover. This week, NASA will also launch a geodetic survey satellite whose blinking light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from...
...umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters, 325 ft. tall, will not be put together on the pads, as is the present practice. The C55 will be assembled...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
Preferred LOR. No C-5s are scheduled to fly before 1965, but assembly and launch facilities must be started well ahead. Much of Holmes's attention goes into such planning, but not long ago he had to make a more crucial decision: he had to select the "mode" in which the first men will fly to the moon...