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...Though the Russians lead in engines of greater thrust, "it doesn't make much difference, because the U.S. has the propulsion to get the weapon to the target...
...gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny...
Despite those lost years, the U.S. has just about closed the ballistic-missile gap. As most U.S. missilemen see it, the U.S.'s ballistic missiles are, militarily speaking, superior to the U.S.S.R.'s. The Russian rocket that carried the Lunik into orbit produced a lot more thrust than any U.S. missile, but if the military job of a ballistic missile is to travel accurately from one point on the globe to another with a warhead in its nose, U.S. missiles appear fit to do the job at least as well as their bulkier Russian counterparts...
...Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust multi-chamber rocket engine); NASA, under Engineer T. Keith Glennan, oversees civilian projects (Project Mercury, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust single-chamber engine). But the division is arbitrary, a response to prejudices and rivalries rather than to the realities of the challenge. More serious than the inevitable duplications between ARPA...
...Russians needed to do was to increase slightly the power of Sputnik Ill's launching rockets or to reduce its final weight. U.S. failure to reach the moon was mainly due to the insufficient power of the launching vehicles. For the U.S. shots to succeed on their lesser thrust, every bit of sophisticated and delicate apparatus had to work perfectly, and this did not happen...