Getting Back From Space
At almost 18,000 miles per hour, Astronaut Gordon Cooper
had to put on his “brakes” almost the way you would apply
yours to slow a car. This was his only way down.
These brakes, called “retro
rockets,” are three solid-fuel
motors shaped like buckets and
strapped in the blunt end of
the capsule. They slowed his
forward by reverse thrust, and
pushed him out of the orbital
path, down into a new trajec
tory for re-entry into earth’s
atmosphere.
These same rocket brakes
brought home Asti'onaut Car
penter, Glenn and Schirra. Con
fidence in the retro-rockets is
based not only on successful
performance, but also on the
specific and exacting standards
taken in their design and man
ufacture at Thiokol Chemical’s
rocket engine plant in Elkton,
Maryland. Before these rockets
are installed in the capsule,
they have been x-rayed, inspec
ted for dimensional accuracy
and proper thrust alignment,
drop tested, vibrated and sub
jected to innumerable other
tests such as humidity, salt
spray and aging!
Though one of these retro
rockets alone can do the “brak
ing” job, three are installed in
the capsule! Fired at tive-sec
ond intervals, they burn for
approximately 11 seconds each,
break the capsule speed by
about 500 feet per second.
The same retro-rocket prin
ciple will apply in braking the
larger vehicles now under de
velopment by Thiokol for land
ing men and equipment on the
moon—in,future space projects
Surveyor, Gemini and Apollo.
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The Alaska port city of Seward,
with a population of approximate
ly 1700 persons, is competing in
the finals of the “All America
City competition in Detroit.
Twenty-two cities are in the
final round of competition, from
which 11 cities will be chosen to
fly the All America City flag
during 1964.
If Seward wins the final round
and is designated an All Amer
ican City, it will be the third time
an Alaskan community has won
that title. Anchorage was awarded
the honor in 1956, Ketchikan in
1957.
Seward, located on ice-free Res
urrection Bay, is Alaska’s largest
port, handling 670,000 tons of car
go in 1962. Three cranes have been
installed for more efficient op
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quick access to the Interior of
Alaska.
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the competition will be announced
in January.
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