Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMID all the clamor about how and why the U.S. lost the satellite race with Russia, the arguments that were hurled about-budgetary penny-pinching, interservice rivalries, underestimation of the Russians-overlooked some basic facts of the U.S. missile program. For the real reasons why the U.S.'s Project Vanguard failed to live up to its name, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Project Vanguard...
...necessary to institute a push of the dimensions of the Manhattan Project, but some sort of combined administration for the missile-rocket development is needed. We may not look seriously on petty inter-service squabbles, but when they affect our attempts to conquer space, they must be controlled...
...woman told the Legal Aid counsel that she had been married for four years and was living in a housing project in Lynn. Six months before, her husband had left her and their young son; now she wanted assistance in filing suit for divorce...
...possibility that certain unpredicted irregularities may be explained by a difference between the actual and theoreretical mass distribution of the earth was not totally discarded by Whipple. He said that the IGY project hopes to gain information about the earth's mass distribution and that these present discrepancies might be a start towards such information. However, he added that it was still too early to tell...
...reason for the U.S. defeat in the race toward space is fairly obvious: instead of having the use of big military rockets, U.S. Project Vanguard was forced to depend on the Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least...