Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost like a human being," reported Murrow's voice. "And then in 5½ seconds it was all over." After that, the successful firing of another Juno three months later was an anticlimax for the film. But from drawing board until a Juno actually got into orbit. Biography was a blunt and forceful epitaph for the Army's career in space. The week before Missile went on the air, reported Murrow, the President transferred Juno's creators and all their future projects to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
...spite of the surface controversy, he complimented the photograph as "remarkably good." Students in Menzel's freshman seminar have verified the photograph's authenticity by examining its edges for known landmarks made visible by slight aberrations in the moon's orbit. He obtained the picture from the Associated Press...
Menzel stressed the need for more research money if the United States is to duplicate the Soviet feat. He did not care to predict the date of a successful American moon circuit, adding, "I only wish I knew." Lunik is now in orbit around the earth...
While Soviet scientists cheered their Lunik back toward earth, U.S. space and missile men also put in a busy week. In a three-point hat trick after weeks of disappointing failures, the U.S. orbited an instrument-packed scientific satellite, quickly topped off that accomplishment with the most successful flights yet of an air-launched ballistic missile and a Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Items: ¶Up from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral and into orbit from the tip of a four-stage Army Juno II rocket curved the 91½-lb. Explorer VII. By far the most sophisticated...