Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twice the launch had been scrubbed, once on May 17 when the Agena target failed to orbit, and again earlier in the week when Gemini 9's on-board computer rejected vital data three minutes before liftoff. Now, for the third time, Astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan wearily returned to the pad at Cape Kennedy for a mission that had the earmarks of a rueful joke...
...first, the humorous approach seemed to work. The giant Titan 2 rocket rose on schedule from the launch pad and placed Gemini 9 in an almost perfect orbit. Then, after only three revolutions around the earth, Stafford and Cernan sighted and successfully rendezvoused with their quarry-the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) that had been launched into or bit two days before. But there before their eyes was another disappointment...
...Judge Alfred Luongo of the Philadelphia U.S. District Court, which had jurisdiction be cause Sellers and Walsh live in different states. Judge Luongo readily agreed that every golfer "assumes the risk or is guilty of contributory negligence if he intentionally or carelessly walks ahead or stands within the orbit of the shot of a person playing behind...
...only thing the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) has managed to put into orbit in the four years of its existence has been its own budget. The cost of an initial set of experiments has risen from a 1962 estimate of $196 million to the present estimate of $400 million, and tests are two years behind schedule...
...first proposed ELDO as a means of finding work for the Blue Streak missile when it was canceled as a military project, were threatening to pull out unless the project can be proved worthwhile. The French were sensibly proposing that instead of putting up purely experimental satellites, ELDO should orbit a paying payload, namely a communications satellite, which would require a bigger and more expensive vehicle. The French seem to be successfully playing on the fear of Europeans that eventually there will be only American and Russian satellites in orbit, broadcasting direct to TV receivers, without going through national broadcasting...