Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack for competition in Tokyo. Randy Matson, a 19-year-old Texas A. & M. freshman, already has a 64 ft. 10½ in. throw to his credit this spring. But by the time the Olympics roll around, Long may be hurling that 16-lb. ball all the way into orbit. "I've always felt that somebody would hit 70 ft. some day," he says. "And the way I'm going, I ought to do it this year...
...nine months behind schedule, got off the ground last week. A Martin Marietta Titan II rode from Cape Kennedy trailing orange smoke from its two engines, an unmanned dummy capsule fitted into its nose. The first stage burned for 21 minutes, then the second stage ignited and accelerated to orbital speed. In six minutes the word came back from the tracking system: Gemini was in orbit with a perigee of 99.6 miles and an apogee of 204 miles, almost exactly as planned...
...Gemini capsules, whose two-man crews will experiment with rendezvous in orbit, are an essential part of the Apollo moon project. The kindergarten schooling of earth orbit maneuvers is intended to train astronauts for the infinitely more difficult moon landing. Next Gemini launch, which is scheduled for late this summer, will test the capsule's re-entry behavior. Unless the program falters, the first two-man flight will come toward the end of this year...
Wearing brown and white patterned pajamas, Astronaut John Glenn Jr., 42, smiled wanly as orderlies wheeled his bed past the television cameras set up in the hospital lounge at Texas' Lackland Air Force Base. Quipped Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, "Some reentry...
Glenn deeply felt the irony of it all. "We've been through 150 missions in two wars, having planes shot up from under us," he told newsmen. "We've been through test flying and the flight into orbit. And we've never been scratched in these other activities...