Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of minutes after the Navy blasted off its fifth Vanguard rocket at Cape Canaveral one night last week, instruments flashed word to Central Control that all three stages had fired successfully, that the third stage was sailing along faster than the 18,000 m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course...
...difficult, sophisticated way to fly a jet plane off a short runway or no runway at all is to design it so it can stand on its tail like the Ryan Vertijet and zoom directly upward. The simple, brute-force way is to blast it into the air with rocket power. Last week the Air Force announced that the "zero-length" launch, done in the past with less advanced airplanes, has been accomplished with North American's supersonic F-100D fighter...
TIME'S most eloquent commentary on the Detroit automobile situation was the photographic line-up of the "look-alikes." In indulging the people's childish delight in their world of imitation (imitation rocket ships, imitation speedboats, etc.), the big shots have likewise denied our citizenry the right to individual taste...
...desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image of suggestion, and when the waves keep on breaking in, all by themselves, you know what's happening. Among the orgasm symbols are the high-wind group, the fire group, and the rocket or levitation group. Fireworks are popular and have been deemed sufficiently refined even for Grace Kelly films. Earthmoving was the unique contribution of Ernest Hemingway. Now, in the language of jacket blurbs, how "bold, frank, fearless, honest, realistic, and profound" can you get? Just about every possibility you can think...
...world's altitude record is Laika. the dog put into orbit in Sputnik II, which reached a maximum distance of 1.056 miles from the earth. Highest U.S. travelers to have survived: two rhesus monkeys, Pat and Mike, sent to an altitude of 37 miles in a U.S. Aerobee rocket in 1952. Highest human: Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., who got to 126,000 ft. (24 miles) in the U.S.A.F.'s X2, for "a couple of minutes" in 1956. * About 38 hours, piled up in hundreds of missions and thousands of maneuvers (flying a Keplerian trajectory or parabolic outside...