Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some time next week, Navy Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. is supposed to blast off on a six-orbit space trip around the earth. But last week Schirra blasted off without ever leaving the ground. And what he said sent officials scurrying for their hard hats...
...towering, 2,800-ton service structure that will eventually house the Saturn III, the most powerful space vehicle yet off U.S. drawing boards. At the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala.. Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused for a moment, then cried...
...Kennedy asked Von Braun and his fellow NASA scientists about the relative merits of the moon plans. The NASA program calls for a shot into moon orbit, followed by brief exploration of the moon's surface by means of a two-man "bug," after which the explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner, who had advocated...
...party was still going full blast at 2 a.m., when the train pulled into Vyazma, a small town 150 miles west of Moscow. A group of collective farmers, goggling at a brightly lighted sleeper compartment, saw two young men cavorting in the raw on a table top; the farmers assumed they were watching the antics of mental patients en route to an asylum...
...Cracked one of the guests in the diamond horseshoe circle, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson: "The pictures of dying America, I suppose." ∙ ∙ ∙ "There is beauty even in explosions," intoned flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class women...