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...wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says Draper. "You don't expect to find many people making a career of it." Draper's Instrumentation Lab has also designed on paper an unmanned payload to circle Mars and return to earth with photographs or other observations. "All that remains is to do it," says Draper. "We've got a habit of confusing the final generation of a satisfactory piece of hardware with the specifications on paper. We have proved that this can be done and shown...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week called off future moon shots until next summer, when more powerful rockets are due to be available: the Centaur and Agena B which, atop the Atlas booster, will provide more efficient thrust in the upper stages, should be able to carry payloads of up to 700 lbs. to the moon. But with the U.S. out of the running now for at least six months, the Russians may well get there with a profitable payload first...
...scientific exploration of space. The Russians have rockets with far greater thrust than the U.S.'s biggest. The space capsule that carried Belka and Strelka weighed five tons. The most powerful U.S. rocket available, the Air Force's Atlas, can at 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...
...race to place a man in orbit. But enforced early miniaturization may pay off handsomely for the U.S. in exploration of deep space, when the huge distances involved (240,000 miles to the moon, 42 million miles to Mars) will create a more critical relationship between thrust and payload weight...
...Russians were far ahead in the ability to send up payload weights. The Russian "space menagerie" weighed 10,143 lbs., twice as much as the heaviest U.S. load put into space. The menagerie's capsule was big enough for two or three men. The U.S. appears ahead in refinement of miniature instruments, but Russia achieves plenty of sophistication with its bigger devices. And by their own claims, the Russians are ahead in accuracy: their space menagerie, they said, landed only six miles from the target point (undisclosed...