Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the well-blasted concrete beach at Cape Canaveral, Fla. last week rose the U.S.'s latest contribution to the heavens: a 38.43-lb. instrument assembly called Explorer IV. For the Army's dependable ballistic dray horse, Jupiter-C, which has failed only once in four tries, this was a milk-run space delivery-but on a new route. All other U.S. satellites were launched toward the equator to take advantage of the earth's 1,000-m.p.h. spin. Explorer IV soared northeast along the New England coast, into a looping orbit which will span more...
Explorer IV was fired northeast from Cape Canaveral, its course shaving Cape Hatteras and passing just to the east of New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The earlier Explorers, fired somewhat south of due east, never came farther north than the latitude of Atlanta, but Explorer IV reaches 51° north. As the earth turns inside its orbit, it will pass over most of western Europe, southern Russia (but not Moscow), all of the U.S. and Japan, most of China, all of the tropics and most of the land in the Southern Hemisphere except Antarctica...
...bark County of Pembroke was running her easting down in the roaring forties off the Cape of Good Hope when she shipped a monstrous sea over the lee rail. Tailing onto the heavy rope of the main brace was a runty, down-cheeked lad of 16 named Jimmy Bisset. His feet swept from under him by the surge of boiling green water, he was washed overboard. His shouts were drowned in the roar of wind and sea. But he held onto the rope's end. And the next sea washed him back aboard. As Jimmy clutched the fife rail...
With a shore-shaking roar, an 85-ft. Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile shot from its Cape Canaveral launching pad in Florida one afternoon last week, less than two minutes later ignominiously exploded. The failure of the missile (control-system malfunction, officials explained) was bad enough; worse, this Atlas was the first fully powered U.S.-made ICBM to be flight-tested. It carried for the first time a wedge-shaped tactical nose cone capable of carrying a hydrogen-bomb warhead, and it was powered by three engines that burned simultaneously from the moment of ignition and generated more than...
Well on its way toward operational perfection, the Army's IRBM Jupiter was shot off last week from the Cape, lunged hundreds of miles into the sky and 1,500 miles downrange; two hours later its nose cone was dipped out of the sea intact. It was the third nose cone to be retrieved, and, reported Army missilemen happily, it proved that the critical problem of warhead re-entry into the earth's atmosphere had been solved...