Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slower but more economical of fuel, the automatic control system keeps the capsule's attitude steady without pilot attention. It has infrared horizon scanners that watch the boundary between the earth's warm curve and the cold sky and use this information to correct a set of gyroscopes. The gyros in turn control a set of jets, shooting small spurts of peroxide through them whenever necessary. If the capsule has been turned away from the horizontal attitude, the busy little scanners and gyros will turn it back again at 8° per minute. This is fast enough...
...dedication to their mission. But in other ways they are as separate as the seven stars of the Big Dipper. Malcolm Scott Carpenter may well be the least skilled pilot among them. But he makes up for that with will power and a compelling personality. He is probably the most popular of the astronauts...
...left leg and collapse a lung; it changed his life. Lying in a hospital bed for two weeks, Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work for his degree and took him back. Seeing a career opening up, Carpenter kept mum about...
...breakfast, Khrushchev himself turned up to take Salinger on a 45-minute boat ride on the Moscow River, and make a few jokes about an old comrade named Joseph Stalin, recently reinterred. The two were hardly alone: a secret security agent sat stolidly in the front seat alongside the pilot; a whole boatload of them trailed the Premier's craft at a discreet distance...
...Moon Pilot. A skillful Walt Disney comedy about nervous astronauts and slow-thinking...