Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska Railroad, and talk of a $58 million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America's finest defilade if enemy missiles should fall short: the Alaska Range, topped...
...launch a rocket from a simple wooden trough or stovepipe. A much more elaborate setup is required for adequate safety...
...John S. Rinehart, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said the rocket Russians reportedly used to put a man aloft did not have to be nearly as large as that required to launch a satellite...
...Rinehart pointed out that putting a man to a height of 186 miles was much less a problem, in terms of the rocket power needed, than to launch a satellite of a man's weight...
...missile-age warfare, a military commander will have only minutes to launch his rockets before a target moves on-or attacks him first. Last week the Army Signal Corps announced an ingenious electronic device that will tell him whenever a target appears: the RP-71, a flying robot that can take off from a launching rig, spy on the enemy from altitudes up to 3,000 ft. at more than 200 m.p.h...