Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow censors this week cleared a press association story reporting that the Soviet Union had launched an experimental rocket carrying a human passenger 186.42 miles into the upper atmosphere. The story said the rocketeer had parachuted successfully to earth. There was no official announcement by the Kremlin, immediately...
...over the U.S., homemade rockets are fizzing, exploding and-on rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...
MOSCOW, Jan. 6--The Soviet Union has launched an experimental rocket 300 kilometers (186.42) miles into the atmosphere with a human aboard, reliable sources here said tonight. The man aboard the rocket parachuted successfully to earth, these sources said...
...rocket with its man passenger only needed to reach the desired height, and fall back to earth by gravity...
Johnson, who heads the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, said Gavin will be questioned about his decision to quit as chief of the Army research and development division working on missiles and earth satellites...