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...York (12.1%) and Massachusetts (5.7%). But there are other gainers. Florida's Cape Canaveral, not so long ago a little-known stretch of sand, is now an international dateline. Houston, near the water route to Canaveral and New Orleans, has lately been awarded the $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center, and the fast-growing city, already the nation's seventh largest at 938,219, now expects to make a quantum jump...
Unmanned exploration of the moon itself is the job of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Mostly because of launch difficulties, none of the JPL's first four Ranger spacecraft has yet sent usable data back from the moon. But the next two are almost finished, and JPL considers them much superior to their predecessors. The job of Ranger 5 will be to land (at 100 m.p.h.) a package of tough instruments on the moon. A temperature-sensing device will report the moon's horribly hot and cold climate over a tiny radio...
...about the moon's mysterious surface than is now known. Another moon explorer under development by JPL and Hughes Aircraft is Surveyor, which will try to make a soft landing on the moon, take closeup pictures and transmit them to earth, besides analyzing samples of moon "soil." Later spacecraft will orbit the moon, photographing its topography in detail while mechanical eyes search for safe landing places for the spacecraft of human explorers. Long before men set foot on the moon, instruments will have made many parts of its surface fairly familiar...
According to present NASA thinking, there are only three possible methods for making a manned moon expedition. The direct approach requires a multistage rocket big enough to fly straight to the moon and land a manned spacecraft there with everything needed for the return trip back to earth. Mode No. 2 is Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR), which requires two rockets to meet on an orbit around the earth. One of them fuels itself from the other and departs, replenished, for the moon. In mode No. 3, LOR (Lunar Orbit Rendezvous), a single rocket will proceed to the moon and park...
...associates lay plans for invading the moon, they can safely assume that scientific knowledge will have increased enormously before the first flights begin. Their urgent concern now is to prepare launching facilities with which to make those flights. Technical direction of the program will eventually come from the Manned Spacecraft Center, 36 miles southeast of Houston. At present, NASA's 1,600-acre tract of rangeland (formerly part of the J. M. West ranch) looks like a playground for bulldozers. Little actual building has started, but eventually the area will have laboratories, office buildings, and massive test communications...