Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EIGHTEEN months ago (April i, L. 1957), in a cover story on Air Force Missileman Bernard Schriever, TIME reported that Air Force scientists con sidered sending an unmanned rocket to the moon a worthwhile project, and estimated that they could be ready to shoot in 1 8 months. Last week tireless, punctual Major General Schriever and his men sent their rocket - Pioneer -far out into space. For the story of their hopes, disappointments and accomplishments, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...outrunning all other achievements of the lusty, newborn age of space missilery, the U.S. one morning last week unleashed the powerful Pioneer moon-probe rocket from the pads of Cape Canaveral and sent it piercing space to a distance of 80,000 miles above the earth...
Next week the U.S. will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...
...moon's pre-life processes, acting as templates on which new molecules could form. Then scientists could never describe with confidence the true "pre-life" of the moon as it existed before the arrival of the terrestrial intruders. It would do no good to sterilize a rocket before it left the earth. Dead bacteria clinging to it, or even the molecules of the organic germicide used to kill the bacteria, might be enough to falsify the record...
...Sidewinder is a small (9.5 ft. long, 5 in. diameter) rocket driven by a solid propellant. In its nose is a sensing device containing lead sulphide, which is sensitive to infrared radiation from hot objects like the tailpipes of jet engines. When the sensing device "sees" something hot in its 20° field of vision, it turns toward it. The Sidewinder turns too, homing accurately on the hot object. The system is so simple that pilots can use it in combat with scarcely any special training...