. Bell telephone magazine . Important steps in the Apollolunar landing mission are shownhere and on the following to right: The second stage ofSaturn rocket burns out, and thirdstage ignites; spacecraft achieveorbit around earth; docking ofLunar Excursion Module takesplace: Lunar Excursion Moduleignites, while command modulecontinues in moon orbit. 47 BELLCOMM. ballistic missile development philosophyfor the simple reason that, given the sizeand cost of the tremendously large Sat-urn boosters, the nation could not affordto build and test scores of them beforeundertaking a manned spa
. Bell telephone magazine . Important steps in the Apollolunar landing mission are shownhere and on the following to right: The second stage ofSaturn rocket burns out, and thirdstage ignites; spacecraft achieveorbit around earth; docking ofLunar Excursion Module takesplace: Lunar Excursion Moduleignites, while command modulecontinues in moon orbit. 47 BELLCOMM. ballistic missile development philosophyfor the simple reason that, given the sizeand cost of the tremendously large Sat-urn boosters, the nation could not affordto build and test scores of them beforeundertaking a manned space flight. Wewere therefore forced to adopt a con-cept of few flight tests and the accom-panying objective of making each flighta successful one. especially so, of course,when it is manned. Thus the programplaces extremely severe demands on theindustrial team. What is required isnothing less than the very best reliabilitythat the nations technology is capable ofproducing. NASA is asking this of all17,000 prime and subcontractors, no oneof which can be allowed to fail. In thelast analysis, the matter of how success-ful industry is in this endeavor will de-termine when we can achieve the nationalgoal of lunar landing. Bellcomms Job In describing Bellcomms place in thisexciting program the large numbers char-acteristic of the program do not apply,but the impressive t
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