Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work on the rocket itself and instruments other than the telescope will be undertaken by the government. The telescope will have an eight-inch parabolic mirror, reflecting into a television camera, supplied with selective radiation filters...
When he is not blasting off from this rocket tower of Babel, Author Bradbury is an eerily engaging host at the Interstellar Hilton...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2--Civilian space chief T. Keith Glennan said today it may be three years or more before the United states can match Russia in rocket engine power...
Glennan resisted Democratic suggestions that more spending now would put the United States on a par with Soviet rocket power. He said the U.S. space engine effort already is "going under the greatest head of steam we can muster at the present time...
...company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs, another team of engineers is working with...