Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like no earthly quiet," he reported. "On earth there are always traffic sounds and dogs barking or the wind just whistling. But in space there's nothing but quiet." He leaned his head forward against his chest-pack parachute and promptly dropped off to sleep. (Back home in Alamogordo, N. Mex., Simons' wife and four children were camping out in the backyard "so we could be under the stars with daddy...
...Missile Barbecue," holding night parties on a beach where they can watch the distant pink glow of missile night firings; in the mornings, Florida fishermen bring up bits of the missiles in their nets. "Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman in Alamogordo, N. Mex., a missile town whose population has increased since 1950 from...
...radar blind-landing system which "talks" airplanes safely down to a fog-covered runway. This enormously valuable job accomplished, Alvarez, still only 32, moved on to the wartime atom-bomb project. In 1945 he measured from an airplane the dangerous shock wave of the first atomic test explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex. Later that year he did the same for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, following close behind the bomb-carrying...
...Ride with Godiva. Busy as ever at Holloman, Bachelor Stapp still manages to lead his private version of the good life. He has bought a three-bedroom home at 300 Lovers Lane in nearby Alamogordo, where he lives alone and lumps it. He refuses to own a television set ("I am not ready for intellectual suicide"). His principal indulgence is some excellent hi-fi equipment...
...they would fly. or bailed out with questionable parachutes to see if they would open. Much of this work today is done by expendable instruments, but a few human risk-takers are still needed. One of them is a 44-year-old medical officer at Holloman Air Development Center, Alamogordo. N. Mex. His colleagues consider him the bravest man alive...