Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy Vanguard fired at Cape Canaveral, Fla. climbed 109 miles in the first-stage test of the three-stage rocket that will, according to schedule, launch a fully instrumented U.S. outer-space satellite next spring...
...third successful Jupiter, the Army's intermediate range ballistic missile (1,500 miles), was fired at Cape Canaveral, and the Pentagon proudly announced it had flown "its prescribed course and impacted in the preselected target area," i.e., within 2½-miles, the Army later leaked...
...northern coast looms a huge tower-top radar eye that looks across the Black 'Sea and deep into Russia. Operated by General Electric Co. under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the eye tracks test missiles launched 700 miles away at Krasnyy Yar, Russia's version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past year or so. Last summer, before the Russians announced...
...firing of an Air Force Bomarc long-range antiaircraft guided missile yesterday from the Cape Canaveral, Fla., Missile Test Center...
From its launching pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week, an Air Force Thor rose majestically into the air and, trailing fire, soared off smoothly on a long journey over the Atlantic. "Beautiful!" gasped a starry-eyed missile buff. But even more beautiful to the Air Force was the distance the missile traveled before plummeting into the sea: some 2.000 miles, 500 more than its nominal "intermediate range" capability, and 700 more than the first successful test Thor flew last month...