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...When a merger takes place, the advantage lies normally with the male corporation, which has been acquisitive and active. Executives on the female side are more likely to be displaced and thrust aside." Ultimately Parkinson cites his Third Law: "Expansion means complexity and complexity, decay." How to tell when a corporation is decaying? Look at the newest buildings...
...reliable military Atlases that put the first Mercury astronauts in their orbits, the U.S. now has the Air Force Titan II, which is just starting its tests but is already considered a very reliable bird. Its structure is stiffer than the thin-skinned Atlas, and its two stages have thrust enough (430,000 Ibs. and 100,000 Ibs.) to make the next big advance in space, orbiting the two-man Gemini capsule around the earth...
...NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star of the Apollo Project, the Advanced Saturn (C5) has yet to take final shape, but its most critical segment, the great F-1 engine developed by North American Aviation...
...tall and 16 ft. across the end of its thrust chamber. Too big to be tested at "Suzy," North American's test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, it is trucked to Leuhman Ridge in the Mojave Desert. There, the test stand towers 275 ft. above the rocky ground. Tucked in its steel skeleton are tanks for lox (liquid oxygen) and kerosene, while stairs, cables, and many-colored pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown...
Five of these mighty machines, which are now well into their final reliability tests, will lift each Saturn C-5 off the ground with 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Then a second stage, with five J-2 hydrogen-burning engines (1,000.000 Ibs. total thrust), will take over. Between them, the two stages will be capable of putting a 240,000-lb. payload on an earth orbit 140 miles high. A third stage, with a single J-2 engine, will push 90,000 Ibs. to earth escape velocity and deliver that hefty payload at the moon...