Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third of its kind. The first, launched last May with a dummy astronaut aboard, went out of control and was not recovered. Cosmic Ship II, launched in August with animal passengers, was safely lowered to earth, and Nikita Khrushchev boasted that the launching was "a step to man's flight into space." To a newsman's question why Cosmic III weighed 82 Ibs. less than Cosmic II, Khrushchev replied: "It's big enough for a man to eat his dinner inside." It was also roughly twice the size of the biggest satellite that...
...Cosmic III was soon in trouble. Allied trackers around the world noted that Cosmic Ill's original orbit (only 154.72 miles above the earth at its apogee, 111.94 miles at its perigee) was the lowest yet assumed by any satellite, Russian or American, and dangerously close to the upper atmosphere. After the spaceship had made 18 revolutions around the earth, U.S. and British trackers suddenly lost contact with...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...
...Libby joined the newly formed Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and specialized in peaceful employment of the atom. Investigating the feeble radioactivity of air, he found that a good part of it comes from carbon 14, a radioactive isotope of carbon that is formed when cosmic rays hit nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere. This led to a brilliant idea that has revolutionized a long list of sciences...
...doctorate at Caltech and in 1949 started teaching physics at the University of Michigan. Soon he got the first glimmerings of the seemingly wild idea that won him the Nobel Prize. After watching bubbles appear in freshly opened beer he suspected that they might be affected somehow by cosmic-ray particles striking through the gas-charged liquid. If this was so, the bubbles should be useful for detecting high-energy radiation...