Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plasma studies at Harvard and M.I.T. will be largely theoretical, but highly practical hardware is likely to grow out of them. The development of fusion power depends on better understanding of high-temperature plasmas. A plasma rocket engine expelling charged particles instead of hot gases may be the solution to the problem of long-range flight. During interplanetary voyages, a spaceship will pass through lashing streams of plasmas shot out of the sun, and its designers had better understand them well in advance. If a spaceship tries to land on a planet, it will meet another plasma problem. A group...
...commercial and defense projects when the missile buildup began have moved the slowest into the new art, largely because they were too busy.with the present to spend time and money on the future. United's Horner candidly acknowledges that his company was in no rush to jump into rocket engines, because it had all it could do to keep ahead in the race to make better jets. "If we had gone into rockets, we might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost all U.S. bombers and fighters, as well...
...only 36 hours. On D-plus-one the Germans swamped the hospital area, took Paul prisoner with a shouted "Hände hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...
Last week's failures and semifailures obscured the overall record of U.S. rocketry to date. Totting up the figures, the U.S. could feel satisfied with results-though the figures were not quite so impressive as they sounded; e.g., a launch planned only to test a rocket's first stage, and which travels only half the full distance, is scored a "success" because it accomplishes all that it was expected to. The record, including satellite launches...
Just after World War II, Navy brass urged Rockefeller to bail out a sputtering rocket pioneer, Reaction Motors. Against his financial aide's advice, Rockefeller put up $500,000. After a tough decade, Reaction grew strong enough to merge with Thiokol Chemical Corp. last year, and Rockefeller got Thiokol stock that is now worth $4,200,000. In 1950, Rockefeller put $202,000 into low-flying Marquardt Aircraft Co., a pioneer in ramjet propulsion; his interest zoomed to $5,200,000 after Marquardt started making ram-jets for the Bomarc missile. But the fastest rise...