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...will soon be available to determine how crews and their systems stand up under the G forces of rapid acceleration. The world's largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
...cranked out a total of 25,486 P-51 fighters and B-25 bombers. In later years, Kindelberger switched to the space race, regrouping his company into six divisions that pulled out, among other rabbits, the X-15 rocket plane, a $2 billion contract to build the Apollo moonship, hundreds of Thor and Atlas missile engines...
...Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver-haired Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 59, was expecting even better. To a blue-ribbon business audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, he calmly predicted that in the next two years "an expanding economy will bring sales to an even higher...
...Moon (Michael Relph; Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired...
...young lady (Shirley Anne Field) whose profession requires her to leap out of cakes at stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...