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...years since NASA took over the Mercury program, its target date for getting a man into orbit and back has steadily shifted: from late 1959 to mid-1960 to late 1960 to early 1961 to mid-1961 and now to late 1961. Meanwhile, by sending the dogs Belka and Strelka into orbit last August and recovering them, the Russians have shown that it should not be much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning...
...best put only a one-ton payload into orbit. What has delayed Mercury more than any other factor is the slow, painstaking miniaturization involved in devising an adequate capsule weighing only one ton. Because of such complications, some knowledgeable critics believe that it is high time for NASA to review the Mercury man-in-space project (cost to date: $350 million) and decide whether it makes sense to go ahead...
THREE-MAN SPACE SHIP contract will be awarded by National Aeronautics & Space Administration by year's end. NASA is eager to proceed with $1,000,000 feasibility study for an advanced manned space vehicle to be built between 1962 and 1965, used on actual probes between...
Pierce proposed the construction of communications satellites back in 1955, two years before Russia launched Sputnik. He found no takers. Then, when he learned three years later that NASA was experimenting with large, inflatable satellites-but to test air resistance, not space communications-Pierce took his case in person to Washington. He persuaded Sputnik-shocked Government officials to set aside funds for a space project that, however practical, was noncompetitive with Russia. Pierce's proposal was pragmatic indeed; in 1927, U.S. overseas telephone calls totaled only 11,000; last year 3,000,000 intercontinental calls were placed from...
Scheduled to take its place within three or four years as Midas' sophisticated sister system is Samos (which, although NASA officials deny that it was named for anything in particular, might easily stand for Satellite and Missile Observation System). Planned as a true "eye in the sky," Samos will carry long-range, wide-angle cameras capable of photographing in detail the entire earth's surface and trans mitting the results to receiving stations...