Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annually in the early 1960s, East Germany's production this year will climb 5%, to $21 billion, at official if somewhat inflated rates of exchange. Though that is only one-fifth of West Germany's output, East Germany has become the top producer for the Soviet orbit outside of Russia itself. It has the highest living standard of any Communist country and-at least by its own statistics-ranks as the world's tenth biggest industrial power, eighth in production of TV sets, seventh in chemicals, fifth in exports of office machines. From such plants...
...more ferociously than since the day Egypt took it upon itself to unite them." Warming up, he added, "There is not in the Arab world one single regime that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit," and Bourguiba ticked off names and dates from Jordan in 1955 to his own country in 1959. To Nasser's further embarrassment, last week a Nasserite coup was staged in Iraq and failed abjectly (see below...
...debriefings. The exams showed that Cooper and Conrad were not so fatigued as the men of the four-day Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal for them on earth. During the critical retro-fire sequence before splashdown, their hearts raced to the highest of the eight days...
...most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the moon. He also put the U.S. military into the manned space enterprise for the first time. The Air Force, which will control MOL, plans to test-launch some components in 1967, orbit an unmanned lab early in 1968, and send up a two-man MOL later that year. Altogether the $1.5 billion program calls for a series of unmanned test shots and five MOLS...
...Force envisions it, the orbiting lab will be a canister, about 41 ft. long and 10 ft. wide, that will be attached to a stripped-down Gemini. The two vehicles will be lofted together into space by a Titan IIIC rocket. Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link...