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Early Warning. When Soviet missiles were first discovered in Cuba, the U.S. hastily improvised an early-warning system. Three Air Force long-range radar units, designed to track satellites, were focused on Cuba to pick up any sign of a firing. The network would have provided about five minutes' warning for the mid-Atlantic coastal region and about 15 minutes for most of the Strategic...
...concluded, I was given target study folders that contained various items such as detailed maps, photographs, and drawings of the target proper, and associated items of equipment that I could reasonably expect to find. After these items were covered, the Intelligence officer briefed me on the Cuban early warning radar net and surface-to-air missile coverage...
Nearing the Cuban mainland, I reached my descent point. The Voodoo nosed over and I went "down on the deck." At this low altitude I was undetected by the long-range radar. The weather in the lower altitudes was broken cumulus, or scattered fluffy clouds, with scattered rain showers. Sea haze interfered to a small degree with my visibility. But it was good enough that I easily spotted my preplanned landfall point. It was a green, marshy outcropping of land...
...surrounded Russia with thickets of poised missiles. The picture is highly inaccurate. As the principal defender of the free world, the U.S. necessarily maintains many military installations overseas- 2,230 of them, according to a Pentagon count. But most of them are clearly unaggressive - supply depots, radar-warning stations, and so forth, with no strike capability at all. In only three foreign countries, Britain, Italy and Turkey, has the U.S. deployed strategic missiles pointed toward Russia. These intermediate-range missiles (IRBMs) are considered obsolescent, and the installations will probably be dismantled within the next few years. The IRBMs, with...
Rendezvous. Gemini's primary purpose is to practice rendezvous in earth orbit, a job of navigation and maneuver that will be controlled largely by ground-based computers. Only after the Gemini capsule and its target satellite have come within sight or radar range of each other will the pilot take charge. Even then a small computer will tell him how to make the two courses intersect. During the final approach, he will really "fly" the capsule. When sufficient experience has been accumulated, he will mate capsule with target, perhaps orbiting with it and taking advantage of its fuel stores...