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...Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of space. In contrast to the moonshooters, the Air Force foresees the need for a manned spacecraft, rugged and simple in design, that will be ready to go any time in any weather, reach orbit, maneuver in space, and return to earth as a matter of combat routine...
...review of the military space program. By a happy coincidence, he was able to an nounce final approval of plans to build the Titan III, due for use in 1964 or 1965, which will be nearly three times as powerful as the rockets that lifted the Russian Vostoks into orbit. The status of other key Air Force space projects reviewed by McNamara...
...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...
...days respectively and ate solid food also suggested that the Russians may have found a better way to dispose of or to store body wastes.- Equally important was the indication that Russia had licked the problem of space sickness. Gherman Titov's bout of nausea during his ly-orbit flight had raised serious doubts about man's physical ability to withstand the effects of prolonged weightlessness. But last year Soviet scientists toughened the cosmonauts' training program to help them combat space sickness. New whirling and loop-the-loop exercises were prescribed; after rigorous physical exertion, a cosmonaut...
...Base. Other U.S. scientists were less pessimistic. They emphasized that because Russia was still operating behind a curtain of secrecy, no one outside the Soviet Union could really gauge the scientific accomplishment of the two-man mission. The Russians did not announce the launchings until the capsules were in orbit, and kept strict control over all information. They did not reveal the size of either capsule, as they had done for the Gagarin and Titov flights,- and the names of the rocket designer and standby cosmonauts were not disclosed...