Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer a program is kept alive the more costly it gets, and the more money put into it the more difficult it is to kill-thanks to pressure from its partisans, from affected industry, from Congressmen. Items...
...while negotiating with the Russians at Geneva on how to set up international controls-and the ban has been extended to Dec. 31. In U.S. atomic weapons laboratories and in the Pentagon last week, there were no doubts at all that the U.S. should get on with its testing program as soon as possible. Reason: the nuclear-test moratorium is now damaging the nation's nuclear-deterrent power...
SPACE Lost & Unfound As a step toward the goal of sending a man into space with a high probability of getting him back alive, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) set out early this year on a new venture: the Discoverer Program, to send satellites into orbit and then try to recover the payload capsules after they had made several trips around the earth. The Discoverer Program's score up to last week: launchings, seven; satellites put into orbit, five; recovery attempts, four; recoveries, none...
...searchers detected no sign of the capsule. Sadly, they came to the bleak conclusion that the Discoverer Program's fifth recovery attempt had failed...
...laced with cesium to make it more conductive. It will circulate through the reactor, then through the generator and back to the reactor again. This system will have to wait for the development of high-temperature reactor cores, but Project Rover, the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear-rocket program, has shown that the prospects of this are promising...