Word: capes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAYMOND T. BAKER Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Cape Canaveral...
General Electric already has orders for 1,000 heat pumps to be installed in a new housing project at Cape Canaveral, Fla., hopes that four times as many heat pumps will be sold in the next three years as were in the last seven years. Biggest obstacle to widespread acceptance is the fact that the pump is still too expensive to operate in any but mild Southern climates, where little heating is needed in winter...
...coincidence that the launching site for the projectile in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was distant from Cape Canaveral by only the width of Florida...
...Author Verne's space ship was launched in 1862 just 115 miles west-southwest of Cape Canaveral...
...Good Dusting. Von Braun went-and fast. The very next week, he reserved Cape Canaveral range time for the night of Jan. 29, 1958, between 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. (he would have hit it right on the nose except for bad weather). Jupiter-C had been ready for months. Says Von Braun: "All she needed was a good dusting. We simply took every bit of care on her that was humanly possible. That is the most you can do and the least you can do in missilery...