Word: balloonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...
Southern Illinois University R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer of the geodesic dome. . D.F.A. Jean Piccard, engineer, pioneer stratospheric balloonist Sc.D...
...help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play, he keeps things high in the air, like a skillful balloonist...
Died. Edward J. Hill, 65, pioneer balloonist who served as technical adviser to Professor and Mrs. Jean Piccard when they made an ascent to the stratosphere from Dearborn, Mich. (1934); of cancer; in Detroit...
...Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...