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...defining their sovereignty, nations originally adopted the principle of iusque ad coelum, or roughly "the sky's the limit." But what is the sky? The notion that a nation's control extends unlimited in a huge space cone above its territory is not only gigantic pride, it is also impractical...
...several stages, but Pravda, giving few details, said merely that when the carrier reached several hundred kilometers altitude and was moving parallel to the earth's surface at 8,000 meters per sec. (about 18,000 m.p.h.), the satellite proper was detached from its protective nose-cone and the burned-out rocket. The three objects separated slowly, following slightly different orbits...
...Army reported that it had scored a major research breakthrough. A Redstone-built, rocket-powered Jupiter "C" test vehicle, fired 400 miles into the ionosphere from its launching site at Cape Canaveral. Fla.. reached a top speed of 12,000 m.p.h., dropped into the Atlantic with its nose cone intact, despite the destructive 20,000° friction heat generated on its "reentry" into the earth's atmosphere. Thus the Army laid claim to being the first to solve the fantastically complicated "reentry problem" (and also exulted in the fact that the test Jupiter "C" landed 1,200 miles...
...South. He was born in Winder (rhymes with binder), 46 miles northeast of Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink of water, we had to draw it out of the well; before we ate, we knew that wood...
...space of time. Early in 1954 a Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee headed by the late great Mathematician John von Neumann developed and extended these breakthroughs. Von Neumann and his associates came out with a feasible technique for designing a lightweight hydrogen device which would indeed fit into the nose cone of an ICBM...