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...disastrous malfunction of Soyuz 1 (TIME, May 5), which took the life of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. As a result, the Russians have been forced to increase the tempo of space activity. They are now spending twice as much as the U.S., and even hold a spare booster rocket in readiness during each major space shot in case the primary booster fails...
Russian Planets? The U.S. moon program has been delayed for more than a year by the Apollo launching-pad fire. But despite the holocaust, and the flawed performance of the Saturn 5 moon rocket three weeks ago, it is still ahead of the Soviet Union's. Engineers now blame the Saturn 5 failures on what appear to be a pair of rare flukes-a leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable...
After igniting successfully, two of the five second-stage J-2 engines inexplicably shut down nearly 2½ minutes early, reducing thrust by 400,000 lbs Although Saturn's sophisticated guidance-and- control system automatically ordered the remaining three engines to fire longer, the rocket had not achieved its programmed velocity by the time the third stage was ready to take over. Thus to achieve orbital velocity of 17,500 m.p.h., the third stage was required to fire 23 seconds longer than planned, consuming 20,000 extra pounds of fuel...
...week's end, disappointed space scientists were picking through telemetry attempting to discover what had gone wrong with the previously reliable Saturn. Preliminary analysis suggested that the two second-stage rocket engines might have been damaged during the separation of the first stage and that an electrical malfunction had prevented the third stage from restarting in orbit The misfires dimmed NASA's hope that the next Saturn shot would carry three astronauts into orbit. Instead, if further diagnosis shows that the rocket's ills are serious, it may be necessary to prove them cured in another unmanned...
...transition from pre-history to future becomes a simple cut from the bone descending in the air to a rocket preparing to land at a space station midway between earth and moon. A classic example of Bazin's "associative montage," the cut proves an effective, if simplistic, method of by-passing history and setting-up the link between bone and rocket as the spectral tools of man, one primitive and one incredibly sophisticated...