Word: blastoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the moon's escape velocity is lower than the earth's, a lunar-based missile would spend less fuel in blastoff, could use it to increase speed of travel. Even with today's rocket engines, says the Air Force's Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours...
...Without the characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took...
...been born in the Independence (Kans.) zoo. While being flown to Fort Knox, they escaped in a way-station airport and were at large for some time. When they finally arrived at Cape Canaveral on May 14, they were put into intensive training courses. But the two weeks before blastoff were not enough. Result: the button-pressing experiment had to be abandoned simply because Able did not have the hang...
Like other Atlases, this one was guided by a wondrously sophisticated ground computer. Before blastoff, the Atlas' internal guidance mechanism was instructed to follow a programed course. As it rose, the Atlas reported by radio on how it was doing. Digesting this information almost instantly, the ground computer radioed back to the Atlas the proper corrections for making its actual course conform to the programed one. These course corrections were made by controllable vernier rockets and slight changes of the direction in the thrust of the main engine. When the Atlas had climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere...
...Army Jupiter-C rocket thundered up from Cape Canaveral, Fla. this week in a perfect blastoff. Its mission: to hurl the U.S.'s 37-lb. space satellite, Explorer V, into orbit to measure lethal solar rays in outer space. Three and a half hours later, the Army glumly announced that the rocket's upper stages had somehow malfunctioned, that Explorer V was not in orbit. Army's space score card to date: three satellites in-orbit in five tries...