Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPACESHIP ORDERS will come soon from Washington. Decision now is being made on which companies are to get multimillion-dollar contracts for "Dyna-Soar" (from dynamic soaring), i.e., vehicle that will be boosted up like a rocket but will have wings and controls to permit pilot to orbit freely around globe, then glide back to earth...
Test instruments revealed that the third stage of the rocket did not fire, and as a result, the projectile "failed to attain the speed required to send an object into orbit around the earth...
Launched at 10:53 E.D.T., the 20-inch satellite was carried aloft by a Vanguard rocket weighing 22,000 pounds...
...altitude of 38 miles, the first stage, more than half the projectile, apparently disintegrated after depleting its fuel supply; and after leaving the launching pad vertically, the rocket arched to a more level course almost a mile up and then disappeared in the southeastern skies...
Poised around the U.S.S.R.'s 37,500-mile perimeter, the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command, a 2,000-bomber force capable in a single sortie of hitting the U.S.S.R. with 2,000 times the total explosive power of World War II, took K.'s rocket-rattling with professional seriousness. SAC began to cut down the "reaction time" of its strike force-hundreds of bombers-from two hours to 15 minutes. This was the Air Force's best estimate of the warning SAC bases would get before an enemy missile strike (TIME...