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...pure oxygen (to get his red blood cells loaded up with an extra supply). Shortly before zero hour, 5:30 a.m., he staggered from the van. his 165-lb. frame laden with 155 lbs. of clothing and equipment, including an experimental stabilizing parachute designed to prevent dangerous high-altitude spin - during which blood collects in the extremities - without slowing the rate of descent...
...Discoverer XIII roared off Vandenberg's launching pad last week, it looked exactly like its predecessors. But one important modification had been made. Speculating that previous re-entry failures had been caused by malfunction of tiny rockets designed to stabilize the satellite in orbit-by causing it to spin like a bullet-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineers had replaced the rockets with gas jets, anxiously prayed they had guessed right. In the console-banked control room at Sunnyvale, Calif., Air Force Colonel Charles G. ("Moose") Mathison paced the floor while monitoring the countdown and alerting his worldwide tracking network. After...
...years. Wall Street bankers, eying it as the nucleus for a "General Motors of the air," bought control. But the new management was not equal to the idea, and Fairchild got his company back in 1931. In 1936 he formed Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. in a share-for-share spin-off of Fairchild Aviation, turned the older company into Fairchild Camera. Fairchild hired J. Carlton Ward Jr., a vice president of United Aircraft, to head Fairchild Engine, and Ward led the company during World War II, when its sales shot from $3,300,000 to $102 million...
...summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...
This is more accurate than any other navigation system, and the Navy believes that Transit is capable of doing even better. Tucked into last week's Transit satellite was a Canadian "guest" instrument for studying background cosmic noise, and the satellite was allowed to spin for its convenience. When the spin is stopped by releasing small weights, the accuracy of navigation by means of Transit is expected to improve...