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...liftoff, a weather shield tore loose, followed by a blazing rupture in a hydrogen fuel tank. With Centaur already 18 months behind schedule and Congressmen crying inept management NASA shifted the program from Marshall Space Flight Center, where Wernher von Braun's team was primarily concerned with the Saturn program, to the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. There tough-minded Director Abe Silverstein, 55, took charge...
...left management of the project completely in NASA's hands. It has watched the development of the Gemini project closely, however, because it sees some future military uses of rendezvous-in-space techniques. The Pentagon has also followed the progress of large boosters like the Titan II and the Saturn V-although it is not really sure what their military potential will...
...space-powers pool their knowledge, the cost of a manned moon-landing will be more than halved. The Soviet Union already possesses a booster far more powerful than any developed by NASA. Thus the five billion dollar project to produce the Saturn booster could be slowed. Each country has progressed far ahead of the other in some facets of space research; many future advances will undoubtedly complement each other, filling gaps that would have been costly to fill independently and preventing duplication of research. Ruseian-American co-operation would also remove from the cold war an achievement which should belong...
More than that, by the late 1970s the Marines might be using 4,000-m.p.h. Saturn rockets to hurl 1,200-man battalions from the U.S. to global hot spots -for example, from Camp Lejeune, N.C. to Africa in 80 minutes...
When the earth is between the sun and Saturn and sunlight is falling on the rings from over the earth's shoulder, the rings get suddenly brighter. This effect can be explained by an assumption that the rings are made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter...