Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outrunning all other achievements of the lusty, newborn age of space missilery, the U.S. one morning last week unleashed the powerful Pioneer moon-probe rocket from the pads of Cape Canaveral and sent it piercing space to a distance of 80,000 miles above the earth...
...Project Pioneer's stab toward the moon was only the beginning. At Cape Canaveral this week, missilemen were busy at launching pads and hangars, preparing for two new moon shoots: a second by the Air Force, set for next month; another by the Army, before year's end. Beyond that lay plans for still another new space bird, whose job it will be to map the entire earth. In the fast-maturing age of missilery, a world of new wonders was in the making...
...Billion Dollars. The first Titan was air-shipped to Cape Canaveral in August for components testing. A test launch, using another Titan, has been tentatively scheduled for late next month. The Air Force has firmly programed four Titan squadrons of nine birds each, will start building the first of the four new Titan hard bases soon after the first of the year. Base construction near existing Air Force installations: $50 million per squadron. Titan development costs : $1 billion to date. Target date for an operational Titan...
While there's been no official announcement, reports are that the rocket with its unmanned satellite will be launched before dawn Saturday from Cape Canaveral...
...abortive effort to place a 20-in. weather satellite into orbit, the Navy's hard-luck Vanguard rocket belched flames and steam, rose three-quarters of an inch off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, then settled gently back into place. Because of a "random failure," the first-stage rocket engine had shut off automatically just in time to prevent Vanguard from toppling over and exploding, saving it to fly again another day. Vanguard's sorry record to date: seven tries, six failures...