Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July. A succession of five firing failures had washed out the deadline, also considerably sobered Air Force and Convair pressagents. Last week the Air Force reported with relief that an Atlas C, an advanced test model, had passed a routine countdown, then soared some 5,000 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral to deliver its one-ton nose cone with satisfying accuracy near waiting recovery ships in the South Atlan tic. But the crowing was muted; the Air Force reported a "strong indication" that it had found the basic trouble, acknowledged the likelihood of more failures, but hoped for operational capability...
Missile scientists insist that they learn something from every big bird that gets off the launching pad. no matter how ignominious its end. But by any other name, an epidemic of missile failures at Cape Canaveral last week added up to one of the most disappointing weeks of U.S. missilery. Items...
...pressure to the danger point. The rocket can explode if the nozzle is a few thousandths of an inch too small. A solid propellant may crack, sharply increasing the burning rate. Unburned propellant can block the nozzle, or flame can burn a hole in the thin casing. As any Cape Canaveral man knows, not even the pros can anticipate all possible ways for the rocket's restrained explosion to become unrestrained. Their motto: "Always assume that a rocket will explode...
Tate's four summers at Harvard have been by invitation. "After a certain age one never applies," he laughed. He added he has "lots of friends" in Cambridge and Boston, spends weekends at the Cape and in Maine, and is going to Tennessee before returning to Minnesota in the fall...
Chaprales keeps his Pacemaker, the Patti C. III, anchored at the Charlesgate Yacht Club, and fishes off Rockport and the Cape for tuna, which is the largest game fish in the area...