Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 16 issue of TIME, you published an article entitled "Little Spacegirls." I don't feel that the U.S., with its long educational background and intelligent young women of today, need take a back seat to Russia in space flight and exploration. I am writing to offer my services...
...days, after enduring near-100° temperatures and a rainstorm that drenched him to the skin, Photographer Wayman's patience was rewarded, and his color film caught the full flight, from start to finish, of the second test flight of the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistics missile, the Atlas. Hours later, the film was on its way to New York for processing, and the following day the pictures were in Chicago being engraved and printed. This week, less than seven days after the event, they appear in TIME, the first color photographs of the Atlas in flight. See NATIONAL...
Haggard from seemingly endless days of overwork, 200 missilemen reported in at Florida's Cape Canaveral missile test center one murky night last week to give the Atlas its final preening before flight. In a blockhouse a few hundred feet from the launching pad, physicists and engineers started radioing to foremen the long lists that comprised the exquisitely detailed ritual of inspection. Fitted together in the great steel bird's innards were some 300,000 parts, and a failure in one of them could cause a misfire...
...missile aviary, ready for launching. Men inside the blockhouse listened in tight-lipped silence to the final countdown. At zero, a finger pressed a red button in a control panel, and the missile, rising slowly and majestically, started on history's second Atlas flight (see color pages opposite...
...paper, Atlas is "intercontinental," capable of soaring 5,000 miles. But Atlas I, launched at Cape Canaveral last June, flew erratically, lived only 22 seconds before a safety officer pressed a button to destroy it. Atlas II started off promisingly. In its straight-up flight, lasting 20 seconds or so, it seemed to be, in the missilemen's term, "programing" perfectly, i.e., doing what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel...