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...relax the old muscles. But this pad was at Cape Kennedy, and Astronauts Gus Grissom, 38, and Lieut. Commander John W. Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real shot. But that's what practices...
...condition for the purchase of another radio station in 1944, William O'Neil paid an extra $75,000 for a struggling California rocket-propulsion laboratory. That has grown into Aerojet-General, a subsidiary that turns out Polaris, Minuteman and Titan rocket motors and a cigar-shaped, 354-ft. ocea-nographical research vessel called the SPAR, which bobs in the seas in a vertical position. Aerojet also produces more than half of General's sales and almost 40% of its earnings...
...will be spent on these and other research and development projects next year. But the Defense Department can present a slightly lower overall bill because of Secretary Robert McNamara's cost reduction program, which is saving $2.5 billion annually, and because the huge initial expenditures of deploying Minuteman, Titan and Atlas ICBMs are now past (such costs have dropped from $3.5 billion in fiscal '64 to $1.8 billion scheduled for '66). Moreover, McNamara is being cautious about the investments in really new weapons. Despite longstanding congressional demands, the defense message called for no urgent program to develop...
...Gemini program, which was designed to test the ability of astronauts to control a rendezvous of spaceships in orbit, had a difficult enough time even getting off the ground. But last week it passed an important milestone in the air. A Titan II rocket took off from Cape Kennedy and carried a 6,900-lb. Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h. toward a spot in the Atlantic 2,129 miles southeast of the Cape...
Ryan takes command at a time of SAC transition, with 100 Atlas and 54 Titan I missiles being phased out, along with 400 B-47s, six airfields and 14 missile sites. But he will still have plenty left: 600 B-52s, 80 B-58s, 600 KC-135 jet tanker planes, 200 KC-97s, 54 Titan II missiles and 650 Minutemen (he will eventually have 1,000 Minutemen), all comprising 90% of the free world's explosive power...