Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roaring Richard, while by far the most adequate, shows a definite tendency to follow the glide path already established by the General. So far, through extensive testing, it has shown a disinclination or a complete inability to establish an orbit of its own. MARGARET JOHNSON...
...moon's gravity, which made it veer in the moon's direction, like a child swinging on a gatepost. But the tug was not enough to make it curve sharply and start right back. Instead, it swung out 67,000 miles beyond the moon's orbit (and 292,000 miles from the earth); then it started slowly back. By this time the moon, traveling on its own orbit at 2,000 m.p.h., had moved far away...
...Russians predicted that Lunik would swing back toward the earth, passing 25,000 miles away (v. 26,400 miles maximum for the U.S.'s paddle-wheel satellite.) Then it will revolve around the earth for an indefinite period, moving out beyond the moon's orbit in a long ellipse and taking about 15 days to complete a full circuit. The plane of its ellipse is not the same as that of the moon's orbit but is nearly perpendicular...
Lunik III is a small, new member of the earth-moon system, and its big associates can tug at it strongly whenever it gets within range. The effect on its orbit will be greatest whenever Lunik III comes close to the moon, but this will not happen often. Eventually, Lunik may be attracted down to the moon's surface, or perhaps the moon will deflect it into a course that will hit the earth's atmosphere and bring its historic career to a fiery...
...Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...