Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succession at almost the same spot on the highway. The toll: 106 government soldiers dead, 20 wounded or missing. Other Viet Cong traps clanged shut near Kontum and Quin-hon, and a full battalion of Reds struck the town of Binhchanh, just ten miles west of Saigon. The defending Ranger company was saved by armed U.S. helicopters, but the very fact that the Communists could mount a battalion-sized assault that close to the capital left many military men shaken...
...clear pictures televised from Ranger spacecraft have brought man closer and closer to the surface of the moon. But for an advanced step in lunar explorations-a first comparison between the moon's crust and its invisible interior-scientists have now abandoned telescope and camera and turned to the computer...
Toward week's end, U.S. jets again clashed with MIGs, and again suffered a loss. Four Navy F-4 Phantoms from the carriers Coral Sea and Ranger were flying patrol about 35 miles from the Communist Chinese island of Hainan...
...When Ranger was 1,300 miles from the moon, other orders climbed the radio beam from California and told the spacecraft to turn on its six TV cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people...
...worried a waiting nation. But the electronic blackout had been made familiar by earlier space shots. And despite the fact that the capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen are making noteworthy progress as they tackle the burgeoning problems of getting a man to the moon...