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...short cylindrical after-section that carries the boosters (see diagram). With the boosters gone, the sustainer engine has less dead weight to carry into space. In this particular model, the sustainer was designed to burn 13 seconds longer than in the regular models. Without this extra thrust, needed to put the Atlas into orbit, it would have plunged into the Atlantic 6,000 miles from Cape Canaveral...
...radio on how it was doing. Digesting this information almost instantly, the ground computer radioed back to the Atlas the proper corrections for making its actual course conform to the programed one. These course corrections were made by controllable vernier rockets and slight changes of the direction in the thrust of the main engine. When the Atlas had climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere, the computer told it to turn its nose parallel to the earth's surface. Other U.S. satellites were kicked into orbit by firing a final rocket from the ground at a calculated altitude. Atlas...
...passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing and heartbeat went back to normal, indicating that, for eight minutes at least, weightlessness causes no severe immediate physiological changes...
...Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...dreary reaches of the Western flats. The boss of the approaching wagon train is understandably puzzled. He rides up to investigate. Just as he is about to tug at the wagon's flap, he hears a strange whirring. He pulls back just in time to escape the downward thrust of a thin-bladed sword. A samisen twangs weirdly on the sound track and a mustachioed Japanese samurai, complete with formal helmet and robe, emerges into the prairie glare...