Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streaking through space, out of the gravitational pull of man's world, past the moon, toward an orbit around the sun last week went the most breathtaking new object of the century. It was the first man-made planet-a Russian rocket. "On January 2, 1959," Moscow radio proclaimed, "a cosmic rocket was launched toward the moon. The launching again demonstrates to the world the outstanding achievements of Soviet science and technology." The rocket, Moscow added, was a multi-stage rig that weighed 3,245 lbs., with a 796.5-lb. payload of instruments (see SCIENCE) and pennants bearing...
...Soviet Union on Friday. When the Russians made their first announcement, they could already say with confidence that the final stage had attained escape velocity. On Saturday they could announce that at 9:59 p.m. E.S.T. Lunik had passed the moon and plunged on into outer space on an orbit around the sun. At week's end it was 318,000 miles from the earth and still going strong...
...mute or not, they expected it to streak into a solar orbit Wednesday or Thursday on a pear-shaped course that possibly--barely possible--might one day swing it back to earth...
There was no sign that the Soviet Union's blasting of a satellite toward orbit around the sun would result in any immediate monetary shot in the arm for the American space program. Rather, indications developed that the heavily Democratic Congress convening Wednesday may write its own ticket in the months ahead on funds for defense and allied operations. Eisenhower's figure is up only 100 millions over the current budget...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has not been tracking the rocket, since it is "much too faint to be seen with the telescope," according to J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Observatory. However, Hynek added that the rocket "will definitely orbit at a calculable distance...