Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological terrors of space, they will spend hours in low-pressure chambers, wind tunnels, human cocktail shakers; they will be jolted on supersonic rocket sleds, flown in balloons and supersonic aircraft and eventually test-rocketed by Army Redstone missiles at 4,000 m.p.h. more than 100 miles from Cape Canaveral down the Atlantic firing range...
...Cape Canaveral, Fla., last night an attempt to put two Vanguard satellites into orbit on a single launching vehicle failed when the second stage failed to ignite...
...Force recovered a data-packed capsule ejected from the nose cone of a Thor intermediate-range missile at the end of a 1,600-mile test flight from Cape Canaveral. In 27 standard Thor flights, it was only the third time a nose-cone capsule had been retrieved...
...obscure brigadier general, attached to the Brazilian embassy in Washington. This week, ten years later, he returns as the tough, seasoned boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in Brazil. As he goes off for three weeks of sightseeing, mostly military, from Cape Canaveral to West Point to Fort Ord in California, the U.S. will get acquainted with the man who will play a key role-either as candidate or moderator-in Brazil's presidential election next year...
Twice within 20 hours last week, the Air Force sent Thor rockets roaring from their Cape Canaveral pads. The first, an Soft. Thor-Able version of the missile (fitted out with a Vanguard second stage), carried an intercontinental ballistic missile nose cone, soared 5,000 miles down range. Despite elaborate homing and signaling systems, the nose cone was not recovered, but telemetry data showed that it had successfully survived a hot ride through the atmosphere...