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The spacecraft's electronic nervous sys tem took over and issued commands of its own, starting a one-hour warmup period. It turned off instruments and turned on guidance gyros. It swung the directional radio antenna aside to get it out of the blast of the mid-course rocket...
The Big Horses. In fact, many professional military men-particularly in the Air Force-insist that specialized military requirements demand specialized space technology. The civilian officials and scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of...
> To make a start in military spacecraft, the Air Force hopes for a 1964 launch of the Dyna-Soar, the manned space glider, which will be the forerunner of more sophisticated vehicles that will be able to maneuver while in orbit.
Moscow did not stop at that. Abruptly, the Russians announced that they were abolishing the office of Soviet commandant in Berlin; from now on, they suggested, their affairs in East Berlin would be taken care of by General Ivan Yaku-bovsky, Russian commandant in East Ger many itself. This, declared...
Loop the Loop. What did the new Russian shoot actually accomplish? Though most Western scientists feel certain that the cosmonauts did not try to mate their capsules in an actual docking maneuver, some believe that Nikolayev and Popovich did maneuver their craft toward each other in space. Cleveland's...