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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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module and service module to thesurface of the moon. Also to conserve fuel, the landing gear and descent enginewill be abandoned on the moons surfacejust as the rest of the excursion modulewill be abandoned in lunar orbit for thereturn journey. These elaborate flight plans result fromthe necessity to conserve weight. Addi-tional weight requires more fuel, whichin turn is more weight that the rocketengines have to boost. For example, add-ing one pound to the structure of theEiscent stage of the lunar excursion vehi-cle would require the addition of aboutfive pounds of fuel in the two spacecraft.Such factors as this have driven the sizeof the booster rocket to the immense pro-portions of the Saturn V. The Size of the Program Not only the rocket, but all aspectsof this National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) program are im-pressive. The new facilities for mannedspace flight are valued at about $4 bil-lion. These include the 52-story VerticalAssembly Building at Cape Kennedy,
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46 Florida. Of this building, the largest inthe world, it has been said with onlyshght exaggeration that the United Na-tions building would slip through itsdoors. It is a part of the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Two otherfield centers are the George C. MarshallSpace Flight Center (MSFC) located atHuntsville, Alabama and the MannedSpacecraft Center (MSC) near Houston,Texas. More facilities are located in Mis-sissippi, Louisiana, New Mexico andCalifornia. The 14 principal stations ofI the Manned Space Flight Network, forcommunications and tracking, stretcharound the world. The magnitude of the program is fur-ther illustrated by the size of the govern-ment-industry team which has beenassembled. Besides the 15,000 govern-ment people charged with project man-agement and procurement there are some300,000 industrial people divided among12 prime contractors, 17,000 subcontrac-tors and uncounted sub-subcontractorsand vendors. Assembling this team and molding it into an efficient operat

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