Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of the sputnik meant that Russian science had matured and that, very likely a new generation of Russian scientists had come of age. German specialists have been employed in Russia, as in the U.S., but most of them have by now been sent home or are being used as teachers. Russian missile technology has risen far above the wartime German level. The Russians are now on their...
...uninitiated watchers the flight seemed a total failure-but not to missilemen. During those awesome 35 seconds, cameras and telemetering devices were recording valuable flight data on miles of film and tape. "As the surgeons say," a sad-eyed missile scientist said bravely, "the operation was a success but the patient died. We got data on the three miles of flight. The next big bird that flies may live a while longer...
While stumping his home state of California, sniffing the gubernatorial air, and "reporting to the people" about Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects...
Live coverage of the story's climax topped a week of news in which television scored heavily and figured intimately. President Eisenhower's special telecast on the evening of the paratrooper's flight into Little Rock carried his words to an audience that approached 100 million...
...first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars...