Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine-start procedure was cut from 24 to four seconds. Last week, in new harness, the second Centaur charged out of its stable and into space without a hitch. Its engines burned clear and blue for the programmed 380 seconds, sent the rocket tumbling into an elliptical orbit ranging from 340 to 1,050 miles above the earth. But it was not the orbit that mattered, nor the fact that the 10,200-lb. Centaur was the largest U.S. satellite orbited to date. By proving that hydrogen engines would burn in space, Centaur showed that the U.S. space effort...
After five years and $325 million worth of frustration, a snow-white Centaur rocket flashed its hoofs high over Cape Kennedy last week and galloped into orbit. As its Atlas booster fell away, the Centaur's own nozzles bloomed with a blue, barely visible flame: the high-energy signature of burning hydrogen...
...certain of holding its dominant position in the $6.4 billion industry, it has just scheduled its third consecutive $100-million-a-year capital spending program. If necessary, Goodyear is even willing to chase potential customers right into space. It is developing a collapsible space station that will inflate in orbit, and a giant "moon tire" that can roll lightly along without sinking into the deep layers of moon dust. The first man on the moon may go for a ride on Goodyear tires...
There are some signs of closer collaboration between NASA and the Pentagon, however. The two agencies have recently negotiated an agressment to cooperate on the development of a manned space station to orbit the earth, since both see needs for the station and each wants to study its possibilities...
...Series of Disturbances. It was not until after World War I that Elsa began her blast-off on the trajectory that was to put her into international orbit for the rest of her life. She had an eye for the bright young comers-"darling Cole" Porter, with whose "secret songs" she sent many a titled gathering into a state of delicious shock; and, of course, "dear Noel" Coward...