Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shifting Target. Spokesmen for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration carefully explained that for the first time in 60 Redstone firings, one of two disconnect plugs had pulled 20 milliseconds behind the other-thus setting up a circuit that cut off the rocket engine. The cutoff told the capsule to blast loose, but a clamp held it securely while the escape rocket blasted away...
...years since NASA took over the Mercury program, its target date for getting a man into orbit and back has steadily shifted: from late 1959 to mid-1960 to late 1960 to early 1961 to mid-1961 and now to late 1961. Meanwhile, by sending the dogs Belka and Strelka into orbit last August and recovering them, the Russians have shown that it should not be much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning...
...underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha last week, a team of 300 Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps officers worked away in rare interservice harmony -putting together a book. The officers were the members of the Defense Department's new Strategic Target Planning Group, and their book was a bulky, top-secret volume containing data on all important Soviet targets and detailed plans for hitting them in case of all-out nuclear...
Nurses in the Forest. Each submarine will remain submerged for 60 days at a time (George Washington will spend Christmas and New Year's at sea), and effectiveness will depend on precise maintenance. In order to launch missiles on target with accuracy, the ship must know its exact location. The complicated celestial-periscope system has 80,000 components and must be kept working to perfection. The periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently...
Gursel still plans to establish, before the end of the year, a constituent assembly to work with the Unity Committee in drafting a new Turkish constitution and writing all major legislation. His target date for general elections is Oct. 29, 1961-not as soon as he had talked of in the first afterglow of revolution, but a lot sooner than would be the case had the ousted 14 had their...