Word: spacemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPECIALISTS in every field from cardiology to television develop their own trade jargon. Newsmen writing about those specialties must learn the lingo-in order to pass it along to the reader with appropriate translation or, perhaps more often, to protect the reader from it. Spacemen, of course, have their own jargon too. In doing the basic reporting for this week's cover story (see THE NATION), Houston Bureau Chief Ben Cate picked up some of the newer entries in the space vocabulary...
...Gemini 4, the U.S. took a big step toward closing the gap in the man-in-space race, in which the Soviet Union got off to a head start. More important, the flight signaled the advent of the second generation of U.S. spacecraft and spacemen. The two-man Gemini capsule is to the old Mercury capsule what a Thunderbird is to a Model T. Almost all previous U.S. space flights were preplanned to the second, and any deviation meant trouble; in Gemini 4, the astronauts were given considerable flexibility, could and did change their plans and improvise at short notice...
...recent official photo of the Kremlin talking to the cosmonauts on the last Russian space flight. Whereas Nikita would have appeared all alone, beaming into the telephone, some dozen officials were hovering around. Up front, seated at a desk, were the top men: Brezhnev was actually talking to the spacemen; Kosygin had the other telephone on the desk beside him, and Mikoyan, by stretching hard, just barely made the scene...
...capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen are making noteworthy progress as they tackle the burgeoning problems of getting a man to the moon...
...later missions, the Air Force is rushing to completion its $127 million Titan III complex on a long, skinny sandbar dredged out of the blue-green Banana River. When it goes into production this spring, the first stop on the assembly line will be in what Air Force spacemen call the VIB (for Verdeal Integration Building). There, in four identical 180-ft. bays, technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick it up between them...