Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embargo is being eased in response to increasingly heavy pressure from European, Japanese and even many U.S. businessmen for more trade with the Communists. The U.S. itself wants to encourage trade with certain satellites, notably Poland, to try to pry them from the Soviet economic orbit. Furthermore, the U.S. no longer believes that the embargo is hampering the Soviet economy, because in many fields the Reds' technology is roughly on a par with the West...
...Swarm. Nasser, replacing Red influence with his own, has made progress in preventing the Syrians from slipping farther into the Soviet orbit, but the socalled "northern region" of the U.A.R. remains infiltrated by Communists to an alarming degree. An estimated 1,000 Soviet technicians, military advisers and embassy personnel are stationed in Syria; the area is aswarm with "technical" missions of bridge builders, oil surveyors and "fertilizer experts." Syria is dependent on Russia for $170 million of its $600 million development program...
...well ahead, submit proofs in advance, stick to "scientific probability," and cut out flighty nonsense, e.g., mist-men who appear and disappear at will. "We argued and talked about it," said Dille, "and, believe me, there are times when a syndicate president would like to put an artist into orbit...
...Project Dyna-Soar, to shoot a manned rocket-powered aircraft into orbit around the earth and return. Martin and Boeing were named by the Defense Department to head two teams of companies that will present competing proposals for the Dyna-Soar contract. Aerojet was picked to help develop the power plant and the test facilities for the Boeing team...
...will be aimed about 40° ahead of the moon, like a hunter leading a duck. Its initial speed of 23,827 m.p.h. will bring it to the moon's vicinity in a little more than three days. If aimed correctly, it will cross the moon's orbit slightly ahead of the moon, moving comparatively slowly. In this region the moon's gravitational field is dominant. It will pull the probe around the moon and sling it back toward earth in a lopsided figure eight...