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...music and documentary films. This week le grand Charles himself will take to the tube twice. Even the scientists gave his belated campaign an extra lift last week as the first French satellite-a 92-lb. candy-striped "bonbon called A-l-soared into victorious if not quite perfect orbit from the Algerian Sahara...
Tethered by Nylon. Mastering orbital mechanics, the physical laws that govern the motion of an orbiting satellite, will be even more difficult. When an astronaut is behind his Gemini capsule he cannot simply increase his speed to catch up with it. Increased speed will put him into a higher orbit, which will make him fall farther behind. To overtake his Gemini capsule, he will have to fire his downward and forward thrusters alternately until he edges close to his target...
Kick into Orbit. Sure that an experimental scramjet plane can be produced within six years, the Air Force has established a Scramjet Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and has already begun awarding scramjet research contracts to aerospace companies...
...speed of 15,000 m.p.h. and soar to a height of about 180,000 ft., beyond which there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere to support combustion. At that altitude, a small hydrogen rocket motor would be used to kick the scramjet out of the atmosphere and into orbit...
...earth. It would be capable of landing at any large airport with the aid of a turbojet engine, which would begin operating at lower speeds after the scramjet engine is shut down and bypassed. A 500,000-lb. scramjet might well be able to carry as much payload into orbit as a 4,000,000-lb. multistage rocket...