Appointment On The Moon; The Full Story Of Americans In Space, From Explorer I To The Lunar Landing And Beyond
Richard S. Lewis
Language: English
Pages: 610
ISBN: B007T1W6A0
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The inside story of America's space venture.
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President for Science and Technology. The post had been accepted, he said, by Dr. James R. Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The second event of November 8, 1957, was a telegram from Defense Secretary McElroy instructing General Medaris to prepare vehicles to launch two satellites during March 1958. The President wanted the first launched March 6, if possible. The joy at Huntsville was unbounded. Missile No. Communist countries." C backup for the rocket which had
Don Yates, commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center, agreed. However, the Army insisted on briefing the press in confidence, with ho release until the flight. Both the Army and the press kept the pact. Day by day, the reporters were briefed on the progress of the vehicle checkout. As the January 29, 1958 launch date approached, the missile was pronounced ready to go. A night launching between 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time had been decided on in order to equalize the time
away. As the surface of the metal wall softened farther and faster, in the heat, the blast of escaping gases carried off bits and new surface to the erosion of the hot blast. Before the metal became hot all the way through, the walls of the motor were eroded away and the motor disintegrated. pieces, exposing The erosion problem seemed to put an upper limit velocity of the exhaust gases and therefore to the on the velocity any THE PHOENIX / 9 rocket could attain. Unless it was
would deteriorate after that. Liftoff time was set between 7 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Walter C. Williams, the operations director, said that 12:30 p.m. would have to be the cut-off time for the launch attempt because insufficient daylight would remain for recovery operations after a 4Vi On hour, 3-orbit flight if Glenn Excitement among lifted off the growing any later. crowd of observers and PROJECT MERCURY when / 121 second weather advisory confirmed the earlier
Phoenix 2. The World-Circling Spaceship 3. A Wind between the Worlds 25 ^ <^^J 4. Project Mercury ^^^ 5. Fireball ^^^ 6. Rendezvous ^^^ 7. Men in ^^^ 8. Mare Nubium ^^^ 9. No Hiding Place ^^^ Towers ^^^ Orbit 10. The 11. Gemini -^^^ Fke ^"^^ 12. 13. Saturn 501: 14. Genesis Revisited ^^^ 15. Landfall ^^^ Tall in the Cockpit The Big Shot Epilogue ^08 ^"^^ Reference Notes 547 Index 553 Elustrations following page 25(} Acknowledgments I wish
