Word: cosmic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio and television guidance of rockets, the movie depicts the use of an unmanned baby tank, crammed with scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar to Sputnik's, the rocket would be refueled by another guided rocket, and then, accelerating fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull, would head for the moon...
...Russian satellite-tracking stations, is the moonfaced girl genius of Russian science. She is married to a professor of mathematics, and has a daughter, 4. She is a staunch Communist Party member and is reputed to frown on Sedov's grandfatherly Gemiit-lichkeit. With her is Cosmic Ray Expert Lydia Kurnasova, about 45, who looks like Eve Curie. Her husband, a Russian sportsman, was killed in a car crash several years ago. Her hobby, she says, "is looking at beautiful things...
...favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger who gets his penny and someone else...
...iron mine at 1,200 ft. per minute, Dr. Simons was as safe as science could make him. His heart beat and respiration rate were radioed directly from his chest to a monitoring physiologist. Film strapped to his forearms and chest would pick up the tracks of any cosmic particles that might crash through to his skin. A C-47 with a paramedic aboard started to track his flight. Down below, radar blips traced his path and a meteorologist turned a weather eye on the heavens. To help science, Simons carried along a good-luck charm from his wife bearing...
...Force has ordered six Far Sides (price: less than $1 million for the lot), and the first test will probably be made from a Pacific island next September. From the gawky Far Side, the Air Force hopes to get information on cosmic rays, the earth's magnetic field and space temperature that will be sorely needed when the glossier and more expensive military rockets begin to navigate space...