Word: blast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia has its share of souped-up space cadets who want to blast off for Mars day after tomorrow, but official Soviet space experts have kept their heads in spite of their Sputnik successes. In Magyar Ifjusag, organ of Hungary's Communist Youth League, Leonid I. Sedov, head of the Soviet Interplanetary Communications Commission, says that unmanned Soviet rockets could reach the moon now, but he is more interested in a deliberate development of manned space flight...
...difficult, sophisticated way to fly a jet plane off a short runway or no runway at all is to design it so it can stand on its tail like the Ryan Vertijet and zoom directly upward. The simple, brute-force way is to blast it into the air with rocket power. Last week the Air Force announced that the "zero-length" launch, done in the past with less advanced airplanes, has been accomplished with North American's supersonic F-100D fighter...
...level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only six seconds. But in blast-off or reentry, g forces build up; not only is speed sharply increased or decreased, but the rate of change is itself increased. This poses a worse problem. Man can stand the addition of one g every 4½ seconds for only 54 seconds up to a maximum...
Rosy-cheeked Donor Wolfson formally declared the center open, accepted a gold key and quipped: "First time in my life I've ever received a golden dividend on opening day." There were prayers, speeches, readings of messages and singing of psalms. Two Yemenites ended the ceremony with a blast on twisted ram's horn shofars...
...Honolulu, the pacifists who had threatened to sail their ketch Golden Rule into the Eniwetok blast area were jailed for defying a court ordering them back. From French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer renewed his stop-the-tests plea, with trimmings of benign neutralist disengagement...