Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside Out. The 3,000,000-lb.-thrust engine was constructed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. to prove the feasibility of very large, solid-propellant boosters. It is 100 ft. long, 156 in. in diameter, paced with 800,000 Ibs. of ammonium perchlorate and powdered aluminum held together with synthetic rubber. This potent stuff is cured in a single carefully shaped "grain" with a star-shaped cavity and burns from the inside out. The nozzle is made of plastic, spun silica and fibrous graphite...
Traditional Cluster. Propulsion Chief A. O. Tischler of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who watched the firing, pronounced the test "an unmitigated, unqualified, unequivocal, unadulterated success." Such strong language does not match NASA's traditional coolness toward solid-propellant boosters. Its ambitious Apollo program to land men on the moon by 1970 is based on North American's liquid-fueled F-l engine, which generates only 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Five Fls will have to be clustered together to boost the Apollo rocket off the ground...
...until the final match, top opponent Yale, that this could be considered one of the timers." Yale was thrashed, 7-2, Harvard had completed a 13-0 season. The Crimson lineup was solid all the down, but it was up front that it sparkled. Rick Sterne and Captain Gonzalez, numbers one and two, not come close to losing a match. dropped only a single game the season...
...Davis, lecturer on Education, went to Selma Monday night to in the march on Montgomery out of indignation." He said in an yesterday that the marchers are not turned back until they had about half a mile farther from than they had in Sunday's march. There was a solid line of state troop- one side of the road; the local and posse--known locally as --on the other," he continued. end of the lines were massed a hundred troopers blocking the and half a mile or so of vehicles up behind them...
...with a few juniors who have improved tremendously and a solid sophomore contingent this year, hopes for next year are reasonably high. But don't count...