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...Angeles, their drivers stoically paying the 50? automobile admission fee that U.C.L.A. charges to discourage overcrowding the 411-acre campus with cars. Out of the cars stream 9,500 night students, who head across the campus for courses that range from modern Armenian to thermal management of spacecraft. Along with the students come some 300,000 culture-minded visitors a year to such events as a film series on the supernatural, or a superb new production of Measure for Measure (TIME, Jan. 26). Thousands of extension students last week jammed registration offices to sign up for the spring semester...
Half of Kennedy's $2.4 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be devoted to "the mastery of space symbolized by an attempt to send a man to the moon and back safely to earth" by 1970, particularly the development of a complex Apollo spacecraft to bear a three-man team. But Kennedy also plans to spend $1.3 billion for space research and technology by the Defense Department, the Weather Bureau, the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies...
...Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit or the moon are far too valuable to drop into the unpredictable ocean. If they head for a land spaceport, they can be guided by radar stations...
...ROCKETDYNE, which has produced the engines powering about 90% of U.S. missile and space flights. Chief current project: developing the Saturn and Nova clustered rockets to loft huge spacecraft on interplanetary jaunts...
Three in One. In building Apollo, North American takes on one of the most monumental precision jobs in industrial history. As now conceived, the spacecraft will actually be three units joined together. The forward unit-the command center-will house the three-man crew. The middle unit will be the service com ponent, providing oxygen and electricity and containing an auxiliary booster rocket for the take-off from the moon. The end unit will house the landing gear and decelerating rockets to lower the craft to a gentle moon landing...