Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Eggers and Ferri point out that their glide or skip missiles are also promising as vehicles for bringing a human crew back alive from a satellite orbit or a trip to the moon. But it is safe to guess that the enormous amount of money and effort already expended on hypervelocity flight would not be made available without a military motive. There is some slim chance of countering a crude ballistic missile that can follow only a predictable course to a single target. But a hypervelocity missile that moves about as fast and can change its course...
Whipple reported that the observatory will notify all Moon watch teams and the Armed Forces to be on the alert over the weekend, even during hours when the rocket might not be visible...
Haley maintained that the power who "gains mastery over the moon will have gone a long way towards mastery of the earth." He thought that jurisdiction over the moon is a "classical international law" problem which we, not the Russians, must answer...
...indelicate as to call it a bitch. City-room funsters showed less restraint in gags about the contents of the next Sputnik (a fireplug) or a quote from Laika's earthbound boy friend ("Someone up there loves me"). After perpetrating such lines as "The chow jumped over the moon" and "How the mighty Laika rose," the Chicago American noted: 'The Russian sputpup isn't the first dog in the sky. That honor belongs to the dog star. But we're getting too Sirius." Even Manhattan's usually long-faced Communist Daily Worker bayed...
...back to earth, either dead or alive. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring the dog down through the atmosphere...