Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a scream that was out of this world, a giant rocket last week rose ponderously off its pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. and, gathering speed, disappeared into the sky. When it splashed into the sea eight minutes later, the Saturn rocket had reached its programed height of 95 miles, scored a remarkable success in its first test flight, given the U.S. a big boost in its race for space against the Soviet Union...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...
...Only the Saturn booster was tested last week; the upper two stages of the rocket were dummies filled with water for ballast. Saturn is scheduled to make its first operational flight in 1964, will have enough power to orbit a ten-ton satellite around the earth or dump a four-ton load of instruments on the moon. By 1966, an advanced model Saturn, boosted by two 1,500,000-lb. North American F-1 engines, is programed to put a three-man spacecraft called Apollo into orbit around the moon. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes to start landing instruments...
Aerospace is a cerebral industry where Saturn stands for a product as well as a target; where "Aeronutronic" is not a nervous disorder but a new branch of the Ford Motor Co.; where one week's output from a major factory can be shipped in the tail end of a station wagon, and a cupful of sensitive components, such as microwave diodes, is worth $150,000. It makes men talk in superlatives. Says E. V. Huggins, executive committee chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corp.: "The aerospace business is the most mind-stretching, imagination-producing, forward-looking activity a company...
Chapel & Garden. About many of the details of the moon colony the G.E. prognosticators are necessarily vague, but the cost of the whole show they have estimated closely. The Saturn launch site, apparently on a tropical island, will cost $342,694,000, including $1,520,000 for a chapel and $40,000 for moving a native village. The Saturns will cost $4.9 billion. Grand total for establishing the ten-man colony: $7.9 billion (in today's dollars). The whole job can be accomplished, says G.E., in 1968, and the colony can be kept on a permanent basis, perhaps with...