Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that lay on the floor of the open-pit Minnesota iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...
...helium nucleus, most powerful particle ever trapped, crashed into a 200-lb. stack of 300 silver bromide photographic plates suspended beneath a balloon that drifted last fall for eight hours at 116,000 ft. over Minnesota. The particle touched off a shower of electrons that streaked the plates with an expanding forest of lines. One puzzling fact: the intruder bumped into two silver or bromine nuclei, creating six mesons in the first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still...
...report that the Department of Defense is afraid that the Russians may beat the U.S. in the satellite race. According to this theory, the Russians are probably working on a satellite just big enough to be tracked. It may carry a small radio transmitter, or it may inflate a balloon of aluminized plastic film. Expanded in space by a whiff of gas, it might reach a size that would be brilliantly visible at dusk or dawn. This bright Communist star, rising in the west every 90 minutes and streaking rapidly eastward, would win enormous prestige for its Soviet launchers...
...Aeronutronic rocketeers concluded that if the vehicle could be lifted above the densest part of the stratosphere before it was fired, they could get the advantages of high-speed starting without the disadvantages of drag and heat. They got in touch with General Mills, Inc., which had developed enormous balloons of polyethylene film, asked if the company could design a balloon that could serve as a launching platform. General Mills could...
...Miles Up. Hanging nose-up below its balloon, Far Side will be lifted nearly 19 miles above the earth, where the air has one-hundredth the density of sea-level air. A radio signal from the ground will set an igniting system in motion. The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration. It will shoot through the filmy balloon as if it were not there. The first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side...