Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...town of Punta del Este, 65 miles east of Montevideo. It was an odd setting for talk about poverty, but there last week, in the blue and white assembly hall of Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club, the economic ministers of 21 hemisphere nations gath ered to launch a historically dramatic new program of massive aid for Latin America's underdeveloped nations - the Alliance for Progress (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...years to come was being shaped. With urgency and hope, 440 delegates from 21 American republics met last week in the most difficult task ever faced by an inter-American assembly: to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. If they succeeded, the conference would launch an immense cooperative pull to lift the face of Latin America. If they failed, chaos or Communists awaited several of the nations...
Chapel & Garden. About many of the details of the moon colony the G.E. prognosticators are necessarily vague, but the cost of the whole show they have estimated closely. The Saturn launch site, apparently on a tropical island, will cost $342,694,000, including $1,520,000 for a chapel and $40,000 for moving a native village. The Saturns will cost $4.9 billion. Grand total for establishing the ten-man colony: $7.9 billion (in today's dollars). The whole job can be accomplished, says G.E., in 1968, and the colony can be kept on a permanent basis, perhaps with...
...control with a new and hopefully more precise set of controls. Weightless by now, he found the manual controls sluggish, had difficulty turning his capsule by means of its small hydrogen peroxide rocket nozzles. "Having a little bit of trouble with the manual controls," he reported. Seven minutes after launch, he managed to point the capsule and fire the retrorockets. They slowed his speed only slightly, but if he had been in full orbital flight, they would have curved him down into the atmosphere. Grissom's movements-he was running behind schedule in his work-were hampered as dust...