Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month scientists of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory fitted an Aerobee-Hi research rocket with a special camera. Fired from the White Sands missile range in New Mexico, the rocket soared through the atmosphere; 123 miles up, the camera began clicking. The camera was fitted with a mirror ruled with a grating of fine lines, 15,000 to the inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University...
...Aided by photographs taken in two other wave lengths of visible light from ground stations in California, New Mexico, Michigan and Washington, D.C., the Aerobee's photographs give astronomers a sort of three-dimensional picture of the violent energy processes in the sun's atmosphere. Eventually, such rocket photography may become so refined that meteorologists may be able to make daily solar weather reports as a matter of routine to help them predict earth's weather...
...Canyon (Dean Fredericks) climbed aloft in his F-102 to examine the flying derelict, and Canyon's first sight of the frozen, frost-covered pilots, still strapped in their seats, added up to terrifying snapshots of disaster. After that, Canyon's shooting the B-47 down with rocket fire-because a tail wind might possibly push it all the way to Russia-seemed reasonable. For the peacetime Air Force is a weapon in the cold war, and an unarmed plane might easily be mistaken for a belligerent...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration approved models of one-ton mushroom-shaped satellite capsules designed to fly men into space in the early 1960s. The model satellites survived preliminary tests of rocket shots into the atmosphere, drops from high-altitude aircraft, wind-tunnel speeds of 10,000 m.p.h., and justified what NASA termed "significant progress" toward "a safe and reliable, manned satellite capsule...
Racing Particles. Since a good source of electrons is atom bombs, which give off vast swarms of them, military authorities realized quickly that rocket-borne atom bombs, exploded at the proper altitude over the proper part of the earth, would test peaceful magnetic theories while giving answers to military problems. e.g., the possible use of atomic charges exploded above the atmosphere as a defense against ballistic missiles. When an atom bomb explodes in the atmosphere, its fireball stops expanding when its pressure falls to that of the air around it; in the vacuum above the atmosphere, the fireball expands indefinitely...