Word: dognik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist's sternest task is to admit the inevitable, and in space travel the unhappy inevitable may be that man can never journey "safely" to the moon and planets. But scientists are making plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument...
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