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...important U.S. rocket engines-Pratt & Whitney's RL-10 and Rocketdyne's J2. The RL-10 powers the second stage of Saturn 1, scheduled for early Apollo flights; two RL-10s combine to form the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur system built to soft-land Surveyor spacecraft on the moon. J-2 forms the second and third stages of the Saturn V designed for Apollo's man-carrying lunar missions. In the near future, violent but versatile liquid hydrogen may become still more familiar as a fuel for supersonic aircraft...
Certainly the Russians did not score any spectacular triumph, but no competent space engineer would blame them for failing on the first try. The U.S. Surveyor program, which is working toward the same soft-landing goal, will fire at least four test shots starting next fall, before even trying to land a scientific pay load equipped to radio information from the lunar surface. It is likely that the Russians are making the same gradual approach...
After its big boom in Georgia, the U.S. space program ran afoul of a fizzle in Florida. At Cape Kennedy the three liquid-fuel motors of an Atlas-Centaur rocket ignited on schedule, but the missile that was supposed to toss a dummy Surveyor (soft-landing vehicle) to the moon's orbit, climbed only a few feet before a valve misfunctioned and the rocket fell back on its pad. Thin-walled fuel tanks ruptured, and more than 100 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene burst into flames. The hydrogen-burning second stage added tons of liquid hydrogen...
...Telephone & Telegraph Co. was appalled. If only 25% of its 4,500,000 subscribers asked for asterisks, argued its lawyers, Pacific would have to spend $4,300,000 to convert its directories. Granting McDaniel's petition, they added, would hamper charity drives and put phone solicitors (one market surveyor has 10,000 of them) out of work. Moreover, the state legislature would have to enact new laws making it a misdemeanor to ignore asterisks...
...Surveyor & Orbiter. What will buoyant J.P.L. try next? Two more photographic Rangers are in preparation, and they will probably search for smooth lunar plains unscored by splashed-out rocks, and otherwise suitable for landings. Later, J.P.L.'s unmanned Surveyor spacecraft will soft-land on the moon, collect lunar material, analyze it on the spot and radio to earth reports of its chemical and physical character. For large-scale moon-mapping, J.P.L.'s Orbiter will whirl closely around the moon, transmitting thousands of pictures of its surface. With J.P.L.'s unmanned space, technology now in full flower, such...