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...ebullient manager, ran an exciting shop. Since his resignation announcement, his men have lost a lot of their old moon-ho spirit. "It's no fun to work here any more," a NASA spaceman recently grumbled. Mueller has a big job ahead just getting morale back into orbit...
Nasser also made an impressive display of military muscle. Down the handsome Nile Corniche road in Cairo rolled new, two-stage rockets capable of launching a satellite into earth orbit and putting Israel, as well as Syria and Iraq, within easy missile range. Other new weapons included amphibious tanks, antiaircraft rockets, ground-to-air missiles, and supersonic jet fighters with speeds up to 1,350 m.p.h...
Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
Western European nations have also banded together into two multinational space agencies to build a three-stage rocket and undertake space probes. The Europeans are not interested in putting a man-or even a mouse-on the moon, but they are considering putting into orbit their own worldwide satellite communications system...
...Into Orbit. Since Western Europe already has a labor shortage, it does not need arms-making to make jobs. The real advantage of defense contracts is the research sophistication that may pay off in commercial products. Out of its military experience, France leads the world in the development of STOL (for short take-off and landing) transport planes. Sweden's plane-and-automaking Saab is now turning out compact computers for the commercial market, having learned to make them for its jet fighters. Most European contractors, however, have so far found the commercial side-effects disappointing. Britain, despairing...