Word: tischler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traditional Cluster. Propulsion Chief A. O. Tischler of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who watched the firing, pronounced the test "an unmitigated, unqualified, unequivocal, unadulterated success." Such strong language does not match NASA's traditional coolness toward solid-propellant boosters. Its ambitious Apollo program to land men on the moon by 1970 is based on North American's liquid-fueled F-l engine, which generates only 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Five Fls will have to be clustered together to boost the Apollo rocket off the ground...