Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 26--A towering Atlas-Able rocket plunged into the Atlantic early today in a futile bid to hurl a satellite about the moon...
...United States does not have another rocket for this shot, and it will be next fall before a rocket is ready which can match the present Soviet Luniks...
...date, the Administration has tended to rationalize its space program as part of a prestige battle with no driving belief in the necessity of securing space objectives-or so its erratic progress on the space program indicates. Gimmicks, as the President's "voice rocket" proved last year, are shortlived and ineffectual. Prestige for unnumbered years will go automatically to the nation that is successful in reaching the moon and making it a steppingstone to further space exploration. And the nation that first lands men and instruments on the moon will be the one whose political and economic outlook becomes...
...minerals in the scientific laboratory and in industry. It is soft enough to be a good dry lubricant; its high heat resistance makes it a good material for crucibles and as a moderator in nuclear reactors. In the new age of rocketry, scientists have eyed it for use in rocket nozzles or in nose cones, which must resist the heat of reentry. But ordinary graphite has two faults: it is permeable to gases and is structurally so weak that it crumbles when subjected to high-velocity rocket exhaust...
Pyrographite can be deposited in sheets up to ½ in-thick, can be shaped to form rocket nozzles and caps for nose cones. Both these parts get punishing heat concentrated on rather small areas. The beauty of Pyrographite is that it conducts heat away from these danger points as fast as copper can, but it does not permit nearly as much heat to pass through it. A Pyrographite nose cone, for instance, spreads the heat of air friction over a large area and permits it to be radiated harmlessly away, but it does not let heat strike through the cone...