Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under the North Pole, made huge psychological warfare headlines, opened up a new strategic frontier...
NASA's Project Mercury, to be detailed officially in mid-January, aims to shoot a man into orbit within two to three years, and return him safely to earth. Although much of the hardware for the shoot has been developed and proved, scientists are still working on the development of new metallurgy and better tracking and recovery systems. Pushing the capsule-enclosed man into space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting...
MOSCOW, Jan. 4--The Soviet Union's cosmic rocket blazed an ever lengthening trail into space today and was reported gradually entering into orbit around the sun, with its radio still sending scientific information back to earth...
Tass, official news agency, said it would enter its orbit around the sun by Jan. 7 or 8 and thus become the first artifical planet in the sun's system...
...failure to attend functions he will be failure to attend functions he will be unable to participate in Varsity games. Kissinger returns from Cuba to become Harvard's defense coach. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announces the successful launching of a seven-pound Vanguard satellite which goes into orbit around Sputnik...