Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving-at first sluggishly, then with breathtaking speed. For three taut hours, as sweating scientists clustered around tracking screens and feverishly processed telemetry data, Radio Moscow disinterestedly played ballet music. Then a sudden silence and the curt, dramatic announcement: "The Soviet Union has successfully placed a satellite into orbit around the earth. There is a man aboard...
...Soviet Union last week went honors for the most spectacular satellite achievement since Sputnik I: Russian scientists became the first to send living animals into space orbit and to recover them successfully...
Russia's huge "flying zoo" was the heaviest object ever fired by man into space, more than twice the weight of Midas II, the biggest U.S. satellite. Aboard the bulky capsule as it spun around the earth in a near-perfect circular orbit were two dogs-named Strelka (Arrow...
...Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during a two-month "tourist season"-the period when the Red Planet's orbit brings it closest to the earth...
...Good News Came. Gross was also counting on other good news. Last week for example, Lockheed's Agena-Discoverer satellite produced a space "first" when its nose cone was recovered after being placed in orbit (see SCIENCE). Lockheed is the prime contractor for the orbiting Midas satellite, which is equipped with infra-red sensors to detect the heat of ballistic missiles and send a warning back to earth. It is also working on the Samos global surveillance system. Along with the Martin Co., Lockheed was chosen fortnight ago to study the feasibility of a nuclear rocket, a development that...