Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NASA has scheduled at least six additional Saturn IB tests over the next year, including two or more manned missions to orbit the earth. By then Saturn V, the actual moon rocket towering 364 ft. and with 7,500,000 lbs. of initial thrust, will be ready for its first flight. After last week's triumph, NASA's Dr. George Mueller was saying that "a major step toward the moon" had been made. More enthusiastic officials were even talking about landing an American on the moon in early 1968, a full year ahead of schedule...
...products range from metal micro-particles .025 in. in diameter-as small as sifted sand-to the Polaris missiles, capable of bearing hydrogen warheads from beneath the sea to targets 2,500 miles away. Lockheed's second-stage Agena rocket has put more payload in orbit than any other U.S. booster, telemetered more data from space than all other U S. spacecraft combined...
...Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
...seemingly effortless piloting of Gemini 6 made the intricate Apollo space navigation seem more feasible. On the way to the moon, for example, the LEM will have to be detached from the back of the command and service modules, then reattached in front. When the Apollo is finally in orbit around the moon, two of its three crewmen will climb into the LEM and head for the moon's surface. After from four to 34 hours of exploration, they will blast off and rendezvous with the orbiting Apollo for the return trip to earth, using much the same techniques...
...research at Wright Field; he developed the first satisfactory oxygen mask for high-altitude flight, and played a role in virtually every major high-altitude development since, thus becoming NASA's inevitable choice to screen the original Project Mercury astronauts in 1958 and devise a program of in-orbit medical experiments, many of which were included in last week's Gemini 6 and 7 missions...