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...week's end there was a good chance that the negotiations would resume, and the U.S. thereby earn a face-saving chance to let once pro-Western Laos slide quietly into neutralism, and then, almost certainly, into the Communist orbit. But West Berlin was another story. The U.S. was firmly committed to the defense of the city-and committed also to keeping Western troops there until Berlin's independence could be firmly guaranteed...
...gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth. By releasing a few bursts of steam, rocket-belted colonists will soar easily over the moon's scratchy topography. In fact, a Bell man cautioned, they will have to be careful not to send themselves accidentally into lunar orbit...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...
...beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
...full test of success in the missile league, but misses do cost millions-and of 193 attempted launchings of U.S. satellites and Atlas and Titan missiles since 1957, only 118 have been completely successful. The original goal of the Mercury astronaut program was to put a man in orbit by late 1960 at a cost of $200 million; now the target date is late 1961 and the anticipated cost $500 million. All in all, the U.S. missile effort is something less than it should...