Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, the indicted parts have been painstakingly gone over. Procedures for dry-run checkouts will be drastically altered. The danger, NASA admits, was not properly estimated in advance, and the exercise that cost three lives was too routinely regarded. If the usual safety checks for an actual launch had been run on the day of the simulation, the accident probably would not have occurred. In future simulations, such checks will be run. Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that...
McDonnell has also devised a 27-lb. antitank missile that a single foot soldier can tote and launch, is confident enough of a big Army order that he has bought a 247-acre site in Florida for a factory. In another diversification, the company has created thriving automation centers in Houston, Denver, St. Louis and Columbia, Mo. Operating $40 million worth of computers, the centers keep records for 22 St. Louis banks, handle warehousing and order control for a shoe manufacturer, compute tax bills for Colorado counties, help devise game strategy for the Denver Broncos' professional football team...
Ground-based rescue systems have serious drawbacks. The House space-rescue report estimates that the minimum time required to launch a Titan 3 rocket and rendezvous its rescue vehicle with a low-orbiting spacecraft is four hours. In addition, the orbiting, disabled ship would pass near Cape Kennedy only two or three times per day. Should a countdown be delayed long enough for the "rendezvous window" to close, the rescue ship would have to delay its flight for hours. Thus, unless the astronauts were well supplied with oxygen and in no immediate danger, the rescuers might arrive too late. NASA...
...launch Operation Junction City, which cost upwards of $25 million, the U.S. threw in 30,000 troops, the equivalent of two entire army divisions, and sent noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s from Guam, 2,600 miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through...
...even terms. Diplomats from neutral nations claim that it will not matter much to them which country gets there first, since the other will probably be close behind. But of course it will matter-though not militarily. The moon, once thought of as invincible "high ground" from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier to detect, and simpler to destroy. Which...