Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket rose majestically from its launching pad and for 68 seconds cut a brilliant, steady swath through the Florida sky. Then, suddenly, the rocket's nose lurched, and an instant later a red-orange mushroom blast shattered the sixth U.S. attempt to put a paddle-wheel satellite in orbit around the moon. If the feat had succeeded, it would have rivaled even the Russian successes of hitting the moon and photographing its backside...
...BILLION EXPANSION program was announced by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for 1961, second largest outlay in company's history, only $100 million below 1960 record. Chief new projects: launching an experimental communications satellite in a north-south orbit over the Atlantic to transmit telephone calls and TV between North America and Europe, and expanding the Data-Phone facilities, by which computers can communicate with one another over regular telephone lines...
...virtuoso feat that is rapidly becoming standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
...American goals or successes in his field. Physical meteorology has direct application to weather control ("You can't control the weather until you understand it"), and is being studied in the light of information obtained by several of the satellites the United States and Russia have put into orbit...
Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...