Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cake, but they were no match for fighters who had trained at the HSA Karate Institute. In a matter of seconds, the carton containing the Geburtstagfestspieltorte had rolled down the steps of Claverly into Mt. Auburn Street, where it was crushed flat by the wheels of an HSA Ollie Orbit Ice Cream truck that careened around the corner of Holyoke Street...
...church shaped like the Mercury 7 on her Brea Canyon ranch near Los Angeles. "It will be open to the public for meditation and peace of mind," says Sara. She plans to have the chapel completed by Feb. 20, 1964, the second anniversary of Glenn's triple orbit...
...been verified by the sky-scanning radars of the North American Air Defense Command. While watching for unfriendly bombers and missiles. NORAD's sharp electronic eyes also spot every other high-flying metallic object that comes into range-including research spacecraft. NORAD has counted 273 man-made objects orbiting earth. Some are satellites, living or dead, but most are "garbage": the burned-out rockets, connecting rings, nose covers, and other bits and pieces that are abandoned after accompanying spacecraft into orbit. The oldest of these far-out travelers is Explorer I, launched Jan. 31, 1958. Its orbit is beginning...
...change in its mission. Before Sputnik, it had largely been concerned with military missiles, now it became the scientific center of an invigorated U.S. space campaign. In only 83 days, JPL quickly modified a test rocket, the Jupiter C, and tossed Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, into Earth orbit...
Mariner II, golden and gleaming, was ready on the pad by Aug. 27, when Venus was still in friendly position. This time the launch went perfectly. The Agena second stage, with Mariner II in its nose, went smoothly into parking orbit. After 16 minutes, its engine fired again, soaring out on a curving course that would lead to Venus. A few minutes later, a cluster of exploding pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed...