Word: 2s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that their gradual march toward space may disappoint the oversold public. All the necessary, cautious first steps (a small missile shot into an orbit, a hit on the moon with a small payload. etc.) are a long way from manned space ships. But Dr. von Braun (of the V-2s), who would hurry the cautious missile men along, says that manned space flight "is as sure as the rising of the sun." He tells just how the U.S. military can establish a "satellite space station" in an orbit around the earth, and he insists that such a station could dominate...
This opinion is seconded by a German-speaking U.S. Army officer who was sent to collapsing Germany in 1945 to gather technical information. He went into the fabulous underground factory at Nordhausen where the V-2s were assembled, and found the director still in his office...
...director broke down and wept when he talked of the V-2s. "For each V-2," he said, "we could have built at least one jet fighter, and each jet fighter would have shot down at least one of your bombers, that have destroyed our country." The feeling of many (though not all) practical missile men is that Von Braun's satellite proposal would fail and would leave the U.S. without the new weapons it needs. These men think that the best way to achieve space flight, whether for military or peaceful reasons, is to continue with the present...
...French fears, the Germans are forbidden to manufacture atomic, biological and chemical weapons. They would be allowed to recruit an 85,000-man air force, but not to make airplanes. They may build guided missiles-but only for short-range use: the British, remembering what Hitler's V-2s did to London, vetoed long-range rockets...
Both ships were World War II T-2-type tankers, whose welded hulls tend to crack in two when subjected to low temperatures and hammering seas. Of 523 T-2s built between 1943 and 1945, eight had split before the Pendleton and Fort Mercer. Seamen could only guess how many more might break in years to come...