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...Goldwater assumes that all but about 50 of the SAC planes will have been phased out by the mid-'70s. From Pentagon announcements, furthermore, Goldwater researchers place the mid-'70s missile force at 1,000 Minuteman and 656 Polaris missiles, each capable of delivering a one-megaton payload. Deliverable capacity then would be 1,656 megatons from missiles, plus 1,200 megatons from the aging bombers-a reduction from...
...engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane off the ground. At cruise altitude, the exhaust is switched to the rear and the plane flies in normal jet-plane style. The P-1127 has done everything claimed for it, but its payload is small, and it is too slow to be of much value as a fighter. Hawker Siddeley is building a bigger model with a more powerful vectored thrust engine that it expects to be supersonic and also able to take off from British lanes...
Scientists were conducting pre-launch indoor tests and had just joined the rocket to its payload when the accident occurred. How the 515-pound rocket motor was ignited, causing it to spray flaming fuel throughout the experiment room, is still a mystery...
...week was seared with rockets. The U.S. communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly...
...burning second stage took over, and it burned perfectly for eight minutes. When it was 1,300 miles downrange and 375 miles north of Antigua Island, the triumphant announcement came: Saturn had reached orbiting speed. The new satellite weighs 38,000 Ibs., and 20,000 Ibs. of it is payload. The weightiest Russian satellites, Sputniks 7 and 8, 1961, weighed only 14,292 Ibs. Only six years ago, the U.S. tried and failed to get a 3-lb. Vanguard into orbit...