Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after the Dartmouth victory set off a few firecrackers of football enthusiasm, a little-known but official student panel, the Undergraduate Ahletic Council, launched a small rocket of its own. The pronunciamento: starting with the Princeton game, four varsity athletes would replace four members of the eight-man cheerleading squad, and in future years all cheerleaders would be major letter-winners...
...group of 15 undergraduates have formed the Harvard Rocket Society, Edward C. Pinkus '59, the temporary president of the organization, announced yesterday...
...Fire Rocket...
Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...
...Mojave Desert, the X-15 will be introduced to air and space by easy stages. First it will probably be dropped unpowered to see how it lands. During February 1959 North American's Test Pilot Scott Crossfield will make the first powered flights, using low-powered rocket engines. Then will come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot when his friend Captain...