Word: mol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEFENSE SPENDING. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, under heavy pressure to cut further the $77.6 billion defense budget that many consider a prime cause of inflation, jettisoned the Air Force's six-year-old space-exploration project known as MOL, for Manned Orbiting Laboratory. By dropping the program, the Administration will save just over half of MOL's $3 billion projected cost. Budget Director Robert P. Mayo announced that henceforth the defense budget will receive the same scrutiny as that of any other department, instead of going directly to the President -though skeptics doubted whether the new ruling would...
...Things." Aerospace is now working on a score of projects that include the MOL (for Manned Orbiting Laboratory) program and Defense Department communication satellites. Such services as the psychologist and public relations counselors have been dropped, and the Air Force's auditing has been tightened up. "There have been no big bad things," insists Secretary Zuckert. The little bad things, however, took on enlarged significance simply because Defense has contracts with 300 other nonprofit organizations. Stunned by what it found at Aerospace, the House Armed Services subcommittee intends to look into spending and allowances at some of these...
Eight days in space will seem like a short mission to the men who go up in the Manned Orbiting Lab (MOL). They will stay in orbit a month or more. Working and walking around in a fairly roomy, pressurized cabin, they will wear ordinary street clothes. Occasionally they will don space suits, step outside for a stroll or a bit of research...
...ordering the Pentagon to start building the MOL immediately, President Johnson made the U.S.'s most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the moon. He also put the U.S. military into the manned space enterprise for the first time. The Air Force, which will control MOL, plans to test-launch some components in 1967, orbit an unmanned lab early in 1968, and send up a two-man MOL later that year. Altogether the $1.5 billion program calls for a series of unmanned test shots and five MOLS...
...MOL will carry many more instruments than the much smaller Gemini. With its farsighted cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, its crew will be able to make more accurate maps of the continents and ocean currents than now exist, forecast weather and survey crop conditions. The orbiting Air Force technicians will also perform telescopic studies of the planets, and investigate the proton showers and other radiation from the sun. But the most significant work will be for defense. MOL can be used to reconnoiter targets, detect nuclear blasts and spot missile firings. Already the Navy has asked the Air Force...