Word: glider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crashes, and, inevitably, word got around. In 1957 the Pentagon officially acknowledged the U2, described it as a high-altitude, single-engined weather research plane-which it surely is. But the public rarely got a look at it. Then one day last September members of a Japanese glider club were shooting landings at a light-plane strip 40 miles southwest of Tokyo. In midafternoon a black jet, its engine dead, wobbled down on the strip...
...SPACE CONTRACTS will help U.S. planemakers take up slack from military-aircraft cutbacks. The latest: $65 million to Douglas for Saturn second-stage units; $50 million to Lockheed for 16 Agena-B rocket vehicles; $29.7 million to Boeing and Martin to start work on Dyna-Soar space glider. NASA space spending is expected to total $2.5 billion annually...
...indeed to investigate the different positions sport occupies in the lives of people of varying backgrounds and standards of living." Von Braun's beginning: "McKay sat easily in his seat on the flight deck, watching Bill Squire beside him at the controls of Goddard, the big rocket-nosed glider which had launched them from the expedition's cargo ship orbiting 620 miles out from the surface of Mars...