Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none of that heart-stopping hover of other tests when liquid-fueled monsters seemed to balance in uncertain equilibrium before they picked up the momentum of flight. This time the gleaming, 58-ft. cylinder shot straight up into the sky ahead of its lengthening tail. Three seconds after launch, its guidance system took over, turned it into the southeast. Thirty minutes later, the first Minuteman, largest solid-fueled rocket ever fired by the U.S., splashed squarely on target more than 4,000 miles down the Atlantic missile range. "Brother," murmured an awed observer, "there goes the missile...
After all, Russia was the first to launch satellites that passed over the territory of both friendly and unfriendly nations-and it was the fault only of their technology that, as far as is known, those satellites were blind...
...Student Council will launch a determined campaign this Spring to bring about an extension of current parietal hours, Howard J. Phillips '62, Council president, declared last night...
...standing room crowd of 8,016 in War Memorial Auditorium saw Baylor, bedded with a fever earlier in the day, launch a furious early assault that buried the East with a steady succession of fast breaks resulting in easy baskets for the West. The West 153 points topped the previous mark of 130 set by the East...
...Force rolled out its first B-52H bomber, designed to serve as a launching platform for four long-range (1,000 miles), air-launched Skybolt missiles. The airplane itself is powered by eight new Pratt & Whitney J57 turbofan engines, has a range of 10,000 miles, will be able to launch its atom-tipped Skybolts without having to make deep, dangerous penetrations into hostile airspace. The 6-52-Skybolt weapons system will have one advantage over ground-launched rockets: it can be recalled at any time before it reaches the release point for its birds...