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Case Institute of Technology T. Keith Glennan, president-on-leave of Case, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency Eng.D. Citation: "Dedicated educator of youth, brilliant leader of men of science, whose monuments orbit the earth...
...that watches the horizon with infra-red eyes and shoots high-pressure gas through a series of jets to keep the rocket horizontal in respect to the ground below. When a Discoverer - and there have been eleven fired so far - has circled the earth 17 times on a polar orbit, it passes over Kodiak, Alaska, where a radio control station sends an order that sets the guidance system on a new track, tilting it 60° from the horizontal. An electric impulse fires explosive bolts to kick off a re-entry capsule, a retrorocket slows the capsule's speed...
...Moon Orbiters. Preparations for one of those systems are under full steam at the Space Technology Laboratory, which will have two tries next fall at putting a satellite in orbit around the moon. Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter...
...have a chance of going into orbit around the moon, a space vehicle must make its approach at just the right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters...
...race finally got under way, the American ship took a commanding lead, while an explosion wrecked the Red rocket-leaving the Russian crew alive in the capsule. Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan) knew what to do: Mars would have to wait for another try. Abandoning his perfect orbit, he went to the rescue. The next stop for Spaceman Lundigan was the White House, where he confronted the President of the U.S. (a deep, off-camera voice, not resembling Ike's). "You have," said the President, "at one stroke done more to make the American position clear than anything...