Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told them that they weren't even close." The San Francisco Giants, hoping to harvest a homegrown product, sent out three scouts last year, gave up when the bids for young Blasingame went into orbit. "We didn't mind," said Dale Blasingame. "Business was pretty good...
...spaceship's automatic controls signaled that back in Russia preparations were being made to turn on a braking device, presumably a retrorocket. "This meant," he reported, "that the final stage of the flight had begun-the return to earth, which was perhaps more crucial than ascent into orbit and orbiting itself. I readied myself for it. I faced transition from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship...
...week's end there was a good chance that the negotiations would resume, and the U.S. thereby earn a face-saving chance to let once pro-Western Laos slide quietly into neutralism, and then, almost certainly, into the Communist orbit. But West Berlin was another story. The U.S. was firmly committed to the defense of the city-and committed also to keeping Western troops there until Berlin's independence could be firmly guaranteed...
...gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth. By releasing a few bursts of steam, rocket-belted colonists will soar easily over the moon's scratchy topography. In fact, a Bell man cautioned, they will have to be careful not to send themselves accidentally into lunar orbit...
...full test of success in the missile league, but misses do cost millions-and of 193 attempted launchings of U.S. satellites and Atlas and Titan missiles since 1957, only 118 have been completely successful. The original goal of the Mercury astronaut program was to put a man in orbit by late 1960 at a cost of $200 million; now the target date is late 1961 and the anticipated cost $500 million. All in all, the U.S. missile effort is something less than it should...