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...test turned to Apollo coasting through space at 15,000 m.p.h. Inside the 24-ft. spacecraft and its service module was virtually everything that will go to the moon-except the three astronauts, their couches and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), for which ballast had been substituted. At an altitude of 310 miles, a programmer-filling in for the astronaut pilot-ordered the Apollo's own 22,900-lb.-thrust engine to head the craft back to earth, increase its speed, then separate the module just before reentry...
...nonetheless powerful legislator who, as head since 1949 of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Independent Agencies (NASA, AEC, etc.), earned a reputation among some agency chiefs as the budget-snipping leader of "the Thomas Obstacle Course" and among Houstonians as the provider of such plums as its $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center; of cancer; in Washington...
Though Luna 9 successfully disposed of the hypothetical thick layers of lunar dust, said University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, some parts of the moon could still present a hazard to landing spacecraft. Photographs from the U.S. Ranger 9 moon probe show that between 5% and 10% of the lunar surface is covered by depressions, apparently areas of thin crust that have sagged into caves or voids under the surface. Should a spacecraft land on such a crust, he believes, it might crash through into the cave below...
...rational surface," exulted Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager Joseph Shea, "and I think the hypothesis of an oddball surface has been put to bed. There are no fundamental problems standing between us and our standing on the moon...
...sifted sand-to the Polaris missiles, capable of bearing hydrogen warheads from beneath the sea to targets 2,500 miles away. Lockheed's second-stage Agena rocket has put more payload in orbit than any other U.S. booster, telemetered more data from space than all other U S. spacecraft combined...