Word: rendezvouses
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As the cheering echoed from Moscow, the world was assessing what the space duet meant in terms of positive scientific achievement, the cold war, and the race to the moon. Though there was no evidence of a basic new technological breakthrough, the dual orbiting of manned space capsules was a...
"If we had three pads here, with three crews working on three boosters and capsules, we could speed up Project Mercury by a year." But the U.S. has only one launch complex available, since Project Mercury does not seek space rendezvous.
Message from Maine. The Kremlin could not resist using the new space flights to make some propaganda, asked the U.S. to refrain from nuclear tests that might endanger the cosmonauts. The U.S., which had scheduled no tests anyway, quickly reassured the Russians. From his weekend retreat in Boothbay Harbor, Me...
The earth-circling trips of the astronauts and cosmonauts were almost as passive as floating down a river on an oarless raft. Making a rendezvous in space will have to be learned by long, expensive and dangerous practice, The basic trainers will be
Later crews may spend as many as four days exploring the moon, but the first men to land will probably take off again promptly. They will wait only for the mother ship to appear overhead. When it is about 3° behind their zenith, they will fire their rockets and...