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...rocketry assembled outside Cape Kennedy includes the TIROS and Telstar satellites, Scott Carpenter's Mercury capsule with a dummy of the astronaut inside, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, and a foretaste of the future: models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that is supposed to put man on the moon...
...beaten track, with no waiting line, here fairgoers can wander among satellites (everything from TIROS to Telstar), see the Mercury capsule that took Scott Carpenter into orbit, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, as well as models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that will land on the moon...
...since becoming First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson visited the Appalachia section of Pennsylvania, where thousands of families live in the poverty of a dismal past. Last week she made her second trip-an excursion into the future at the Huntsville, Ala., Marshall Space Flight Center, where she saw the Saturn moon rocket...
...space center, engineers tried to explain their work to Lady Bird in terms meaningful to her. The 182-ft.first stage of the Saturn I is "three feet taller than the White House," its thrust is "equal to the power required to drive 100,000 Cadillacs," and the concrete in a 400-ft.-high test stand "would be sufficient to build a four-lane highway from Dallas to Fort Worth." Said Lady Bird: "Thank you for putting it into words I can almost understand...
...Ride with Aunt Effie. That afternoon, with fingers pressed to her ears against the thunderous noise, Lady Bird attended the test firing of a Saturn booster. "I never dreamed it would be that loud," she said, "It was fantastic. If you leaned up against this wall you just could feel it was quivering." Before leaving she recalled girlhood days in Alabama: "Until I was about 20, summertime always meant Alabama to me. With Aunt Effie we would board the train in Marshall and ride to the part of the world that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek...