Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe...
There is much to be done, in the short time that is left. But an impressive amount has already been accomplished. Before they are ready to test the performance of their complex craft in space, astronauts put in long months of practice in equally complicated machines at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston (see color pages). There, in computer-operated simulators, replicas of spacecraft interiors, they go through complete missions. The simulators move at a touch of the controls, actually vibrate during launch, and present changing views of the earth, moon and stars during their simulated missions. Before they blast...
...When Apollo 7 takes off this week, the conical NASA command module, carrying the three astronauts, and the attached cylindrical service module, will be launched into orbit by a Saturn 1B rocket, which is not powerful enough for the moon mission. "Simply flying the vehicle will be a major test in itself," says Flight Director Lunney. "The men will do the works-move around and eat, manage the housekeeping chores and keep the cockpit running." In the process they will be fully occupied keeping track of 24 instruments, 566 switches and 40 "on-off" in dicators that show which systems...
...final stage of their launch rocket, using only a sextant and a telescope for direction finding; the Apollo command module is not equipped with rendezvous radar. During their week-and-a-half space journey, they will start Apollo's large, 20,500-lb.-thrust engine eight times to test its reliability. That engine literally means the difference between life and death. On actual moon missions, it will be used to guide an Apollo spacecraft into orbit around the moon, and, later, to fire the craft out of lunar orbit into a trajectory that will return it to earth...
...could afford no better), he labored with endless preliminary sketches and interminable revisions to build a series of carefully thought out, tense compositions. They were, of course, meant to look as though they had been stroked impetuously on the canvas in a matter of minutes. Said he: "The final test of a painting is: Does the painter's emotion come across?" To be sure that his did, he left his painting surfaces an intricate jumble of spatters, strokes and corrections...