. Bell telephone magazine . John A. Hornbeck,President, Bellcumm, Inc. The author points outsible Apollo landing sia large scale map of the , left to right, modelsof Saturn 1, Saturn IB andthe moon rocket, Saturn WM When Bellcomm first entered ournations manned space flight pro-gram, just over four years ago, theconcept of landing men on the moon andreturning them safely to earth seemeddaring at the very least and in someways almost unbelievable. Many skepticsdoubted that this feat could be accom-plished at all. Today, after tens of thousands of man-years of effort, the prospect of
. Bell telephone magazine . John A. Hornbeck,President, Bellcumm, Inc. The author points outsible Apollo landing sia large scale map of the , left to right, modelsof Saturn 1, Saturn IB andthe moon rocket, Saturn WM When Bellcomm first entered ournations manned space flight pro-gram, just over four years ago, theconcept of landing men on the moon andreturning them safely to earth seemeddaring at the very least and in someways almost unbelievable. Many skepticsdoubted that this feat could be accom-plished at all. Today, after tens of thousands of man-years of effort, the prospect of the UnitedStates accomplishing the Apollo lunarlanding mission is good—most probablyit will be done within the next three andone-half years. Eight of the 12 Gemini flights havebeen concluded. Early next year. ProjectGemini will be history, along with Proj-ect Mercury which sent the first Ameri-cans into orbit. Already we have seen the first of theApollo/Saturn flights which will culmi-nate in the moon mission itself. In thatfirst flight, which took place last Febru-ary, an unmanned Apollo spacecraftriding a new Saturn IB rocket left theearth on a successful suborbital year we shall see the first Apoll
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