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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Mars Closeup: Are We Alone?" examines the information relayed by the Mariner spacecraft, scheduled to spin by Mars only 1½ hours earlier...
...hydrogen some of the most sophisticated jobs in modern science. Refrigerated into a liquid state, hydrogen is helping physicists to peer into the heart of the atom, to trace the fleeting histories of the smallest building blocks of matter. Space scientists are depending on it to launch the Apollo spacecraft that will take the first U.S. astronauts to the moon...
...important U.S. rocket engines-Pratt & Whitney's RL-10 and Rocketdyne's J2. The RL-10 powers the second stage of Saturn 1, scheduled for early Apollo flights; two RL-10s combine to form the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur system built to soft-land Surveyor spacecraft on the moon. J-2 forms the second and third stages of the Saturn V designed for Apollo's man-carrying lunar missions. In the near future, violent but versatile liquid hydrogen may become still more familiar as a fuel for supersonic aircraft...
...time they are through with their training, the astro-scientists will be able to fly space capsules as well as jets. They will probably do some spacecraft piloting, but their main function will be as expert passengers in moon flights four or five years from now. Explains Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston: "After we've developed a transportation system to the moon and back, we can enjoy the luxury of scientific experiments...
...These will be missions flown in three-man Apollo spacecraft. Meanwhile, crews for the remaining two-man Gemini nights will be drawn from the 28 pilots still active. Scheduled for the next three shots: Major Gordon Cooper and Lieut. Commander Charles Conrad in Gemini 5 next month, Commander Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford in Gemini 6 next December or January; Major Frank Borman and Lieut. Commander James Lovell in Gemini 7 early next year...