Word: discovereres
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¶Recovered an instrument-laden capsule, ejected on cue by an orbiting Discoverer satellite, as it dropped from space into the sea near Hawaii. This success brought the U.S. closer to its space ambition for 1961: to fire a man into orbit and bring him back alive.
The Air Force's costly Discoverer program was an immensely sophisticated effort, but so simple to score that it seemed to be just one failure after another. Its expense, climbing to $100 million this year alone, made it a target for cost-conscious critics, and the army of carpers...
Twelve times a Discoverer satellite had been fired, atop a two-stage Thor-Agena rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.; twelve times it had failed to accomplish its total mission. To prepare the way for that day when a man can be shot into space and brought back alive...
Liberal Democrat Clark's tongue-lashing was meant for Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, but it made a certain amount of sense to his red-eyed, rumpled colleagues, worn down by 14-hour working days as they rushed toward adjournment before the July11 Democratic Convention. The House side was equally...
Outside of the royal family, the only person in the British Commonwealth who rates being addressed as Her Majesty is Salote, the 6-ft. 3-in., 280-lb. Queen of the Tonga. Last week Her Majesty, 60, winged in from her Polynesian archipelago to Sydney, Australia, to have a historical...