Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones and the aerospace industry. An old-line aircraft company, known as Bell Aircraft until purchased by Textron Inc. last year, Bell directed energies and recognized talents toward navigation, space and new concepts of flight. Bell's Agena liquid rocket engine has put more payload in orbit than any other, has fired 33 times in Discoverer-Agena-Midas programs for 100% reliability record...
Smithsonian scientists said they found more than 100 times the amount of tritium imbedded near the surface of the capsule than they would normally expect in a satellite making a similar orbit during a period of no flares...
Most of the apparatus is hidden ten feet below the ground. A linear accelerator will start the process by firing electrons into orbit inside a 240 ft. diameter doughnut." Attached to the hollow tube are huge electro-magnets which will further speed up the particles in radio frequency pulses. After eight milli-seconds and 10,000 turns, the high-energy electrons will be directed in bursts at targets in the experimental hall...
Imaginative Attack. The technical papers testified to an eagerness to try anything, however difficult or bizarre, that might move the U.S. toward space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration showed models of satellites already in orbit or soon to soar aloft-beautiful machines with the strange, angular, functional grace of well-designed space craft. North American Aviation, Inc. showed a full-scale model of its giant F-1 rocket engine, which spits out more than 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust and whose tail cone is as large as an Eskimo igloo...
...Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration. But I must confess that I feel a little unworthy." As if his radio transmitter were stuck in mid-orbit, Soviet Cosmonaut Sherman Titov last August repeatedly exulted, "I am eagle, I am eagle . . ." Last week a report newly published by two Russian scientists revealed that Titov had also been as seasick as a puppy during the 25-hour flight. Although the Siberian-born jet jockey spun his dials satisfactorily...