Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American League are simply not proceeding in an orderly fashion. The standings turn over every rejuvenated second-division teams the Minnesota Twins are in the back of the pennant race, and the unexpected collapse of the Yankee pitching has kept New York in the League rather than in orbit as everyone forecast...
Always Perfect. Finally Titov had to face up to the official reason for his trip to Washington: his address before COSPAR. Listeners who hoped that they would hear a Glenn-type account of the Russian's 25 hours in orbit were disappointed. Titov's formal, apparently ghostwritten speech described the Vostok II's equipment only in the most general terms. Even when figures were given, they were carefully selected to tell little. Titov revealed, for instance, that his ship was launched by a multistage booster having six liquid-propellant rocket engines with 600,000 kilograms...
...scheduled to be finished by 1964, Saturn will acquire a live second stage, which will be powered by a cluster of six 15,000-lb.-thrust engines nourished by liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Scientists figure that Saturn eventually will be able to heave more than 200,000 lbs. into orbit around the earth, or send an 80,000-lb. payload to outer space. This is far more weight than can be put aloft by any other U.S. missile-more than enough to send three astronauts around the moon and back, far more than the missile that sent Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman...
...Atlas booster shut down seconds after ignition. But by week's end, the trend toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired two satellites from Point Arguello, Calif, in secrecy-shrouded round-the-pole missions. And the Russians stayed in the space race...
Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...