Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy Vanguard fired at Cape Canaveral, Fla. climbed 109 miles in the first-stage test of the three-stage rocket that will, according to schedule, launch a fully instrumented U.S. outer-space satellite next spring...
...four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected the key Soviet-bloc naval base at Valona and told a group of gold-star mothers: "The imperialists are trying to unleash another war, but we, if necessary, can strike a stronger blow...
...conspicuous rocket carrier, now seen by millions, started behind Sputnik. Having more air resistance and therefore dropping sooner to a lower, faster orbit, it quickly passed the satellite. Now it is leading by 63 minutes and is revolving around the earth in 94.68 minutes. Dr. Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory expects the rocket to have a good many more days in space, perhaps 30 or 40. Then it will make its fiery death-plunge into denser...
...longer, 4 in. wider, 2 in. lower, have optional air-suspension ride and a slight horsepower increase to 290 h.p. Two new models: a sporty Impala hardtop and a convertible, both with 280 h.p. to compete with Ford's Thunderbird. Pontiac is just as new, with revamped, rocket-ornamented body, double-barreled taillight and a bigger, 300-h.p. engine...
...commented at the Garden St. headquarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that the second Russian launching probably required no greater effort than the first. Whipple speculated, as have most other American scientists, that the 1,120-pound object speeding around the earth is the third-stage of the rocket rather than a spherical satellite...