Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose that the wrangling Congressmen who quibbled about the cut in the military budget be stuffed in the warhead of the first rocket making a trip to the moon...
...Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will be far ahead of the real one in that it can be pronounced a success...
Both the U.S. and Russia have sent animals on short rocket flights without hurting them, but this is not at all like keeping humans alive on a satellite or other space vehicle. The difficulties are enormous, and much greater weights of life-preserving equipment must be lifted into space than is possible with today's biggest rockets. The problem of return to earth looks tough too. At the present state of the art, men who fly into space could not return alive...
...below. All space vehicles must be lightly built to conserve weight. They would therefore be vulnerable, and since they are forced to move on predictable orbits, they should not be too hard to shoot down. One suggested method of dealing with a hostile satellite is to shoot a modest rocket into its orbit, but moving in the opposite direction. The warhead would burst and fill the orbit with millions of small particles. Any one of these, hitting the satellite with twice its orbital speed (36,000 m.p.h.) would have the effect of a meteor, punching a hole and sending...
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 27--Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officials said last night that results of their computations of the orbit of Sputnik's rocket were to be transmitted to Russia immediately...