Word: spacecrafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Loser Boeing could not poor-mouth very effectively. With its plum contracts involving the Minuteman missile, the Saturn booster and the modernization of older B-52s. Boeing has enough work to keep its Wichita plant going. Boeing has also developed the X20 Dyna-Soar, the first fully maneuverable spacecraft. If the Air Force wins its fight for a military role in space. Boeing's Dyna-Soar could supersede the TFX on some yonder tomorrow...
...makers of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, strict limits have been set against overtime work. » In Maryland the Martin Marietta Corp. has laid off 225 men who were working on the Titan II booster, the rocket that will launch Gemini. » In Houston, home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought we were in a race. My God, we've got guys going out of their minds down here trying to get things going." » At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Saturn Boss Wernher von Braun warned: "We cannot allow things...
...moon's visible face has long been mapped, its plains and craters named, its cold curves charted. But as U.S. engineers continue their multibillion dollar effort to get the first man-carrying spacecraft to the moon, U.S. astronomers study the earth's only natural satellite with steadily increasing intensity. For if its visitors are to survive, science must provide them with lunar information that has so far defied centuries of observation...
...test pilots, scientists, or a combination of the two? All present U.S. astronauts are primarily pilots, and a strong faction in the space business believes that their nerve, quick reactions and experience with flight controls are the indispensable attributes of a successful spaceman. Equally passionate scientists point out that spacecraft are not airplanes and cannot be flown in the same way. Space commanders of the future, they believe, will be cerebral types, at home with electronics, celestial mechanics and computer calculation...
Experience in the actual navigation of spacecraft right from the cockpit is almost nonexistent at present. The Mercury capsule which has made three orbital flights, is largely controlled from the ground. Mercury astronauts can partially shut off ground control by flipping switches; they are in fact, told to do so in order to eliminate the remote possibility that a stray electronic impulse (or an enemy-sent signal) might fire their retrorockets prematurely. But eventually they must flip that vital switch back on again. Only a signal sent from the ground at the proper instant can bring them safely down...