Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper stages of the moon rockets will burn liquid hydrogen, and the rocket manufacturers who work with the stuff claim that they will soon have it under control. But no hydrogen-burning engine has yet flown, and skeptics abound who believe that this tricky and touchy fuel will cause disastrous difficulties before it is tamed...
...Clay Pigeon. When the chiefs stepped down, it was the scientists' turn. Dr. Edward H. Teller, one of the developers of the hydrogen bomb and strong advocate of intensive atmospheric test ing, told the Senate that "the signing was a mistake. If you ratify the treaty, you will have committed an enormously greater mistake." Teller's chief objection was that the U.S. would be un able to perfect an anti-ballistic missile. Though he admits that a workable system would probably cost an astronomic $50 billion, he declared: "Missile defense may make the difference between our national survival...
Working with Brookhaven's powerful Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, they slammed a stream of antiprotons into a bubble chamber full of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons hit the stationary hydrogen nuclei-which were also protons-they annihilated each other, giving off energy and filling the 20-in. chamber with a sudden splash of new, extremely short-lived particles...
...doubters began to argue that the exemption of underground explosions was the Soviet ace-in-the-hole. Since the Russians have made fewer subterranean tests than the United States, they would be able to catch up in that category while this country was forbidden from atmospheric testing of hydrogen behemoths comparable to the ones the Soviets already have. Secretary McNamara testified we did not need the big bombs, but if we ever did, we could build them without testing them and still be confident they would work...
...Syncom's orbit to the earth's rotation; it was moving a little too fast, drifting ahead of the earth by about 7.5 degrees of longitude per day. Out on the Navy control ship Kingsport in Lagos harbor, Nigeria, engineers sent radio signals that fired jets of hydrogen peroxide to slow Syncom down. Obediently the satellite changed the direction of its drift, began to move toward its proper position above Brazil...