Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gagarin, dubbed the "first cosmonaut" the American press, was in orbit in outer space for an hour and 29 minutes, the time needed by his rocket to circle the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour, Tass reported...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge will attempt to track the last stage of the launching missile, presumably still in orbit. Don utman, Acting Head of the Research Analysis Division of the Observatory, said that the feat was "tremendous." And, he claimed, because the U.S. plans to attempt the same venture this summer, a Russian success was a predictable entry in the race for space. It was not an increase in the lead the Russians had already established, he maintained...
...While playing with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the 1920s, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, now 68, gave Britain some of its finest theatrical hours, earned the especial esteem of the creator of many of his most challenging roles. Recalls Hardwicke in his memoirs, A Victorian in Orbit: "Probably the handsomest compliment ever paid me was delivered by Bernard Shaw. 'You are,' he said, 'my fifth favorite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.' " Knighted in 1934, Hardwicke well remembers the occasion. King George V could not quite catch the actor's name, finally gave...
...making a different step-by-step study of space. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched from Cape Canaveral a 78-lb. satellite programed to go into an elongated orbit ranging from 120,000 miles at its apogee (highest point) to 94 miles at its perigee. On board were three magnetometers, including an extremely sensitive one to measure magnetic fields, and a special instrument to study protons shot out of the sun. This sort of information is vital for space flight to other parts of the solar system. The crews of low-orbit manned satellites will be protected...
...Project Mercury has, so far, no reliability record. Its man-carrying capsules have been lobbed in short arcs, one of them carrying the live chimp, Ham, but none has gone into orbit. Project Mercury apparently intends to send one of its astronauts on a short, Hamlike rocket ride in a month or so. This will be an achievement of sorts, risky for the astronaut, but it will not compare in difficulty with a real descent from an earth orbit...