Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest rocket the U.S. had ever launched, a three-stage Atlas-Able, was off on the U.S.'s most ambitious space shot so far. The mission: to send an intricate, 372-lb. payload of instruments into the vicinity of the moon-and if all went well, into orbit around the moon. The rocket also carried a weighty cargo of hope and national pride: Nikita Khrushchev had kicked off his trip to the U.S. with the Russian moon shot; a U.S. answer exploded on the pad while he was in the U.S. Here, on the eve of the President...
Until the '60s. If the U.S. had an adequate space program, the next step would be to remedy the trouble with the nose fairing and try again. But the shocking fact is that the U.S. has no more Atlas-Able rockets available for trying again. All the Atlases allotted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have already been assigned to other urgent space programs, and NASA has no spare funds to order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
...providing places for 75 students, the new houses will more than double the space now available in cooperative dormitories...
...Administration expects to continue its present policy of limiting space in cooperative houses to upperclassmen, Dean Brown said. Although the question has not been discussed officially, she explained, "It seems likely" that all freshmen will continue to live in Quadrangle dormitories...