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...Wernher von Braun, 57, director of the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Transported to the U.S. by American intelligence officials in 1945, along with 126 other German scientists who had been working on the V-2 rocket at the Baltic base of Peenemünde, Von Braun has directed development of rocket-launch vehicles from the earliest Redstone. Von Braun helped develop the ablative heat shield, which dissipates the searing heat of reentry by flaking off in harmless fiery pieces. His Huntsville group can also claim credit for what has become known in the space agency as "cluster...
...might better be called One NASA Family. The latest flap came with the space agency's announcement last week that Public Affairs Officer Paul Haney, the calm, canorous "Voice of Apollo," has been ordered to a lesser post in Washington after six years at Houston's Manned Spaceflight Center. The word was that some NASA officials thought that he had become too impressed with himself. Haney, who wanted to be on hand for the first lunar landing, was outraged: "This is like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down...
Schirra's decision to retire from spaceflight will allow him more time for the ground-bound activities he enjoys-parties around the Houston space center, water skiing and sailing with his wife, Josephine, and his children, Walter, 18, and Suzanne, 11. "I've been gone one heck of a lot," he says. "It takes...
...LI.S. astronaut team, chosen in June for the manned orbiting laboratory program; on a routine proficiency flight, when his F-104 jet went out of control and slammed into the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., thus making him the ninth fatality among those assigned to the manned spaceflight effort since it began...
...Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer to the recovery carrier than ever before in the U.S. manned spaceflight program...