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...since 1966, when Gemini 9 was delayed by an electrical malfunction, had a launch been scrubbed with the astronauts already in the cockpit. And critics used the setback to raise again what has by now become a litany of complaints about the shuttle program: it is too expensive-nearly a third higher than the original estimate. It is military oriented. Above all, it drains money away from such scientifically important unmanned space projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William...
...Gemini 9 flew off triumphantly two days after its launch was scrubbed -and so did Columbia. Toiling through the night, computer experts in Houston eliminated the hitch by going around it. On Saturday, the experts switched the computers on early, almost a day before the second launch attempt. This time the machines worked in full harmony, and controllers knew they had those electronic gremlins licked. And so, an hour after dawn on Sunday, the signal was given, the engines thundered and, as the grassy meadows and sandy beaches of Florida's coast trembled, Columbia was finally...
...other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young, who had to make do with the hoses and plastic bags aboard the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, will probably be particularly fond of a zero-,? toilet with toeholds and a warm-air "flush" to carry off wastes...
...central to implementing the avowed US counter force doctrine of fighting "limited nuclear wars." Much has been made of another type of satellite being tested by the Soviet Union--interceptor/destructor or, "killer" satellites--although little mention has been made of the fact that as early as 1965 NASA's Gemini program, with its rendezvous between two satellites, successfully demonstrated US interceptor/destructor capability. Now the US military wants to use the space shuttle to make destruction of Soviet satellites a real possibility...
...chairman of McDonnell Aircraft, which, through a 1967 merger, became McDonnell Douglas, one of the nation's largest defense contractors; following a stroke; in St. Louis. "Old Mac," who called himself a "practicing Scotsman," guided his firm in the 1950s and '60s to manufacture the Mercury and Gemini Space Capsules and F-4 Phantom II fighters used in Viet Nam. In the late 1970s, however, design flaws in the Douglas group's DC-10 commercial jets were blamed for several crashes, precipitating lawsuits and costly losses of civilian and military contracts...