Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then fell away while the Able-Star took over, firing for five minutes. Then it shut off its engine and coasted upward and around the earth for 18 more minutes. Over South America the engine blasted again for a few seconds, giving the final push needed to attain an orbit with an apogee of 570 miles and a perigee of 341 miles...
Case Institute of Technology T. Keith Glennan, president-on-leave of Case, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency Eng.D. Citation: "Dedicated educator of youth, brilliant leader of men of science, whose monuments orbit the earth...
Also in the visible future is the manned spacecraft that, with techniques based on military nose-cone research, will bring its human travelers safely down from orbit or from an interplanetary journey. Strangely, the manned spacecraft in some ways presents fewer problems than the ICBM. Where an ICBM enters the atmosphere at about a 20° angle with a sudden, explosive shock, a space vehicle can come into the atmosphere flat, keeping its deceleration and temperature comparatively...
...have a chance of going into orbit around the moon, a space vehicle must make its approach at just the right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters...
...race finally got under way, the American ship took a commanding lead, while an explosion wrecked the Red rocket-leaving the Russian crew alive in the capsule. Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan) knew what to do: Mars would have to wait for another try. Abandoning his perfect orbit, he went to the rescue. The next stop for Spaceman Lundigan was the White House, where he confronted the President of the U.S. (a deep, off-camera voice, not resembling Ike's). "You have," said the President, "at one stroke done more to make the American position clear than anything...