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...itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced to settle for a brief 302-mile arc that was sadly short of orbit...
...prospect was not wholly reassuring. Making a manned voyage to the moon and back is far more difficult than cartoonists, space fictioneers, or even most engineers think. It is more hazardous than the six-orbit Mercury mission scheduled for this summer. It involves almost every science known to man−including microbiology, astrophysics, and the farthest-out varieties of chemistry. It demands massive knowledge in such fields as lunar geology, as yet practically unexplored. The project is full of unknowns, threatened with unimagined perils, and it calls for money in war-sized chunks. Before the first American flies...
...ground with 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Then a second stage, with five J-2 hydrogen-burning engines (1,000.000 Ibs. total thrust), will take over. Between them, the two stages will be capable of putting a 240,000-lb. payload on an earth orbit 140 miles high. A third stage, with a single J-2 engine, will push 90,000 Ibs. to earth escape velocity and deliver that hefty payload at the moon...
...satellite, but Goddard men launched it, and NASA's rich experience with space electronics made its triumph possible. Other communications satellites are even now in the works, including Relay, a joint NASA-RCA project that will be launched late this year, and Syncom, which will be placed in orbit 22,300 miles above the earth. Any one of these systems, or a combination, may eventually handle the bulk of the world's long-distance communications. These complicated communications satellites may soon become the biggest kind of commercial business, justifying in dollars and cents a hefty part...
...story of the American League so far this season is straight-forward. The Yankees have suffered a series of injuries and slumps, but these have only bound them to the league lead and prevented them from going into orbit, as everyone predicted...