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After five years and $325 million worth of frustration, a snow-white Centaur rocket flashed its hoofs high over Cape Kennedy last week and galloped into orbit. As its Atlas booster fell away, the Centaur's own nozzles bloomed with a blue, barely visible flame: the high-energy signature of burning hydrogen...
There are some signs of closer collaboration between NASA and the Pentagon, however. The two agencies have recently negotiated an agressment to cooperate on the development of a manned space station to orbit the earth, since both see needs for the station and each wants to study its possibilities...
...Series of Disturbances. It was not until after World War I that Elsa began her blast-off on the trajectory that was to put her into international orbit for the rest of her life. She had an eye for the bright young comers-"darling Cole" Porter, with whose "secret songs" she sent many a titled gathering into a state of delicious shock; and, of course, "dear Noel" Coward...
...first two sentry satellites were rigged to orbit on opposite sides of the earth, thus reducing the probability that the earth will ever be between both of them and a space test. Next year the U.S. intends to put eight more sentries in orbit. While they watch for treaty violations, they will make themselves peacefully useful by reporting bursts of X rays coming from...
NASA also blamed private industry for crucial delays in the $384 million Mercury program. As originally scheduled, the first American astronaut would have blasted into orbit as early as April of 1960, nearly a year before the Soviet Union's first manned flight. Instead, John Glenn's three-orbit trip was delayed 22 months. In that interval, said the report, "time and money were expended in Mercury to rectify cases where improper materials were found in the systems because someone had failed to follow the approved materials list." NASA singled out no particular companies from the total...