Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians were quick to put in a counterclaim. Leonid Sedov, often an official spokesman for Soviet missilemen, declared that each of the three Soviet carrier rockets that orbited the earth weighed considerably more. These weights are not known accurately outside Russia, since the Russians maintain that only the instrument payload is important. The payload of the dog-carrying Sputnik II (instruments, dog, transmitter, etc.) weighed 1,120 lbs., v. the Atlas' 200 plus. Sputnik III's payload weighed...
Most exotic cargo aboard the Atlas are two recorder-transmitters. Carried in a special pod on the rocket's side, the instruments weigh an estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...
...army will take the middle way. Military leaders, as individuals, can participate actively by contributing their services . . . on the highest levels, as in the financial, economic and other fields. The army is a part of the community, and at the same time a part of the state, even an instrument of the state that could be employed by the state leadership to achieve the people's ideals...
...music and took her for tap-dancing and harmonica lessons. After a while Miyoshi switched to the mandolin. ("I didn't like mandolin, either. When I didn't like, I quit.") Next came piano. Says Miyoshi: "I just loved any sound that you could do it with instrument...
...first shot, scheduled for next month, will use a Thor IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...