Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on the Space Pioneer (Dec. 8, 1952). In the following months the editors reported on the state of U.S. education in science, in the cover on California Institute of Technology President Lee DuBridge (May 16, 1955); on space medicine, with Colonel John Stapp (Sept. 12, 1955); on rocket guidance systems (Jan. 30, 1956); on the intercontinental ballistics missile program, with the Air Force's Major General Bernard Schriever (April 1, 1957); and on the fabulous new industry supporting missile production, in the cover on California's Ramo Wooldridge Corp. (April 29, 1957). After Sputnik. TIME correspondents...
...Administration position that the Navy's Vanguard Project is coming along on schedule and is all the satellite program the U.S. needs, ordered that Vanguard be "supplemented" by the Army, which has long insisted it could put a satellite into outer space with its Jupiter-C test rocket (in September 1956 a Jupiter-C was fired to an altitude of 600 miles and a distance of 3,500 miles...
FOREIGN POLICY : Under the pressure of the Sputniks and Russian rocket diplomacy, the Administration began a major effort to renew bipartisan foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred for 2½ hours with foreign-policy experts of the Truman Administration, e.g., former Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. and onetime State Department Policy Planner Paul H. Nitze. Subject of the meeting: plans for the Western heads-of-government meeting at the December NATO conference in Paris. Note of anxiety in the new planning: the U.S. will have a workable intermediate-range ballistic missile well before it has an intercontinental...
...most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians were coming. Looking beyond the obvious dangers of Russian advances in particular fields of military technology, e.g., rocket engines, Teller finds a more worrisome menace in Russia's massive national program of science education and basic research...
...other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities of a certain country, that nation could impose its own regulations. Beyond the three hundred mile zone would be the "high seas" of free space where no national control existed. For this Sputnik and trans-Sputnik area space law would...