Word: payloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first shot, scheduled for next month, will use a Thor IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...
...position. His job is to train pilots and flight crews for the jet age, make both jets and pistons leave and arrive on schedule. He has worked on more than 2.1 million simulated jet flights, with the help of electronic machines that calculate the jet's fuel load, payload, schedule etc. as if it were on a regular run. ¶ Ellie Roman, honey-blonde staff supervisor in charge of American's 1,300 stewardesses, fulfilled a childhood ambition to become a stewardess, moved to New York from Chicago last year to take charge of training American...
...Cocoon. The high-pitched whine of the jet engines has brought complaints from householders near airports, led some airports to impose restrictions that cut into the jets' payload. But despite all the uproar, the sound suppressors that every jet uses cut their noise level to that of a DC-7, makes the noise argument seem as dated as the early objections to the noise of the horseless carriage...
...launching rocket, which reportedly is poised on its pad at Canaveral, is an 88-foot, three-stage affair. It carries an 85-pound payload, consisting of the satellite with some 25 pounds of instrumentation...
ROCKET ENGINE of 1.5 million Ibs. thrust, enough to send big payload to the moon, will be built by North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division. Under new Army contract, company will put together a cluster of eight engines, using Thor and Jupiter components. Engine will be ready for tests by late 1959. Rocketdyne also won recent Air Force contract for 1,000,000-lb.-thrust engine (TIME...