Word: manually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disturbing Tone. But these were minor matters compared to another problem: the fuel tank feeding the fly-by-wire and the automatic control systems was only 45% full. Flight Director Christopher Columbus Kraft ordered Carpenter to start flying the capsule by the manual control system, which uses a separate fuel tank. As Carpenter approached California, Kraft decided that there was still enough fuel for a third orbit. But he told Astronaut Shepard at the microphone in the tracking station at Point Arguello: "We still want to emphasize to him to limit his auto fuel usage...
...capsule into the proper position for firing the retro-rockets-the blunt heat shield end of the capsule pointing 34° above the horizon. But Carpenter felt that the automatic system was working badly; he decided to fly the capsule into the correct position by a combination of the manual and fly-by-wire controls...
...Cape Canaveral, scientists and engineers looked up in alarm from their instrument consoles. Five agonizing seconds passed. Then Carpenter, finally realizing what had gone wrong, reached up and fired the retrorockets manually. Says one man who was in the Canaveral control center: "When those retros fired, you could hear some loud sighs, people letting their breath out, and a 'thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another...
...already been adopted in many Veterans Administration hospitals. And because its inkblots cut across cultural and language barriers, the H.I.T. manual is already being translated into Polish and Spanish. A bat's head is always a bat's head-at least wherever there are bats...
...been staying on the political sidelines because they wanted no dealings with the old G.O.P. machine. The Alliance now operates out of well-equipped downtown offices on a budget of $25,000 a month. It has recruited 1,500 volunteer workers, mostly youngish, and supplied them with an Alliance manual on how to round up votes for the G.O.P. Johnson hopes to have 15,000 volunteers actively at work in Philadelphia by midsummer to help the Republican cause in this fall's state elections...