Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomers at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Abservatory are not trying to "think up novel forces" to explain slight deviations in the orbital behavior of the Russian third stage rocket. These deviations have not been explainable thus far in terms of known forces acting on the object...
...Fred L. Whipple, director of the Observatory, said "We can't say these forces don't exist, but at the moment we are trying to explain the rocket's behavior by air drag and other known forces...
...team did not spot the satellite, believed a few minutes behind the rocket itself...
Leonard P. Giblin, Associated Press newsman who was among the watchers, said the rocket was brighter than any of the stars visible in the early day light...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14--A team of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., was able to train telescopes and cameras for about a minute on the rocket which fired the Red satellite into space...