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Though barely two months have elapsed since the successful flight of Apollo 9, the U.S. is poised for yet another space epic. At Cape Kennedy last week, a giant Saturn 5 stood on Pad 39B, and an astronaut crew and NASA technicians methodically ran through a mock countdown in preparation for the launch of Apollo...
...team that made Apollo possible may begin to disintegrate for lack of a sufficiently compelling challenge. For purely technical reasons as well, time may be running out if the Administration is to maintain America's current lead in space. The last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional Saturn 5s, the money will be just enough to ward...
...ORBITING LABORATORIES. A byproduct of the billions spent on Apollo is the hardware to send three missions, beginning in late 1971, to a manned space laboratory in orbit some 200 miles above the earth. Saturn 4B rockets will spend their fuel and then serve as bungalow-size space stations for three-man crews. The first will include a doctor, who will study the effects on himself and his companions of 28 days under zero gravity. The crew will also try to learn how vacuum and weightlessness affect certain manufacturing processes. These include electron beam welding and the use of molten...
...scheduled to make soft landings on the planet's surface. Also proposed is a Venus-Mercury "minitour" using the Venusian gravitational force to whip a satellite on toward Mercury. Perhaps most visionary of all is NASA's dream of "Grand Tour" flights to the "outer" planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The four outer planets will be aligned in such a way that a single craft launched between 1976 and 1978 could fly by all of them. Such an alignment will not recur for 179 years...
...Governs the legs and ankles) Saturn, Uranus-rulers of the 11th house