Word: saturns
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...brighten. Reason: aluminum demand is catching up with supply, and ingot prices have finally stabilized (at 24½? a lb.), even though the industry has two more producers and 35% more capacity than when its price troubles began. Aluminum is already a big item in everything from saucepans to Saturn rocket skins, but to advance Alcoa's recovery further Harper is pushing hard to get more aluminum into mass products-tops for baby-food jars, pop-top cans, frozen food packages, auto-engine blocks and radiator grilles. With help from his researchers, he even hopes to challenge steel...
...planning of manned space missions, the training of astronauts, and-beginning with the second Gemini shot scheduled for this fall-ground control of manned missions. But the place the missions will blast off from will still be the sandy flatland around Cape Kennedy. And until NASA's Saturn rocket is operational, the Air Force will continue to provide adaptations of its defense-developed missiles to do the blasting...
Routine Now. More detailed knowledge of micrometeoroids is considered essential for man's safety in space. But even so, orbiting Pegasus was not the most significant achievement of the Saturn launch. Far more encouraging for the future of space exploration was the smoothness with which the many-tiered rocket was dispatched into...
...pads before taking off. Often, when they seemed to succeed, they accomplished only part of their mission. The failure of some small part kept them below the level of total perfection that is the absolute imperative of space. But nothing at all went wrong with last week's Saturn, which left its pad as routinely as an ocean liner leaving its pier...
...eight interconnected engines of the big bird's booster stage are training vehicles on which U.S. engineers are learning to handle the five much larger engines that will boost the Apollo spaceship on its voyage to the moon. Saturn's second stage teaches an even more difficult art. Its six Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines burn liquid hydrogen, which is incredibly touchy to handle, but has an added efficiency that is considered essential for the moon project. The smooth success of last week's launch suggests that LH2 has at last become a routine fuel...