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...major scientific sense, the orbital flight program seems almost self-defeating. Both Russia and the U.S. insist that they will not attempt to place a man in orbit until they can reasonably guarantee his safe return to earth. But when problems of thrust, guidance, artificial environment, communications, reentry and recovery have been sufficiently solved to permit this assurance, the program already will have proved its point: that man can survive in a satellite. Thus, to many scientists, the stunt of actually putting a man in orbit then seems scarcely worth the effort, risk and financial burden...
...miniaturized, even the heat shield. We couldn't use off-the-shelf equipment. Miniaturization takes time and money." Design of a special lightweight oxygen bottle, for instance, took 18 weeks, cost more than $20,000. The Russians, whose rockets generate an estimated 800,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. Atlas' 360,000 Ibs.), had few weight restrictions, grabbed a huge advantage in the race to place a man in orbit. But enforced early miniaturization may pay off handsomely for the U.S. in exploration of deep space, when the huge distances involved (240,000 miles to the moon, 42 million...
Belka (Squirrel)-rats, mice and flies, as well as land and water plants, fungi and seeds. U.S. engineers estimated that the multi-stage rocket that boosted this bizarre collection into space must have had a first-stage thrust of at least 800,000 lbs. -twice as much thrust as the most powerful U.S. missile possesses...
...Think It Is Tragic." The gallery crowds had come to see Kennedy and Nixon thrust and parry, but neither did much battling that eye or ear could detect from the galleries. Kennedy left it up to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-operating tirelessly in his familiar arena with his old verve-to lead the Democratic troops on the floor. Nixon, as Senate president, was barred by tradition from speaking out, or even moving onto the floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress...
...Freely Confess." Republicans got in the first telling thrust. After huddling with Nixon, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen proposed a bill to restore what Ike's message had called the "two major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...