Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Florida correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents Ed Rees and Sherwin Badger sweated out the rocket shoot with Pentagon brass, and Atlanta Correspondent Lee Griggs went to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., to report Huntsville's big stake in the firing. For a narrative account of the history-making night, see the first four pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Russians told almost nothing about the insides of their Sputniks or how they were launched, or what information came back from them. The U.S. told almost everything about the four-stage rocket that tossed the Explorer into space, and about the satellite's instruments, its two radio transmitters, and how to receive and interpret the coded signals that they are sending down from space. For the workings of the Explorer, see SCIENCE, 1958 Alpha...
...shoulder-shruggers had a point. The Explorer was a predictable accomplishment-and by no means the last one the U.S. would demand. "We are competing only in spirit with Sputnik so far," said Explorer's Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun, "not in hardware...
...kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts in anti-missile missiles, and more imaginative technological achievements (such as manned missiles, a rocket motor with 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust), as well as some head-knocking on the question of civil-defense shelters...
Armored with the courage that comes from living year after year under the gun, the Turks are unimpressed by Russia's rocket-rattlings. In the midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21); neither Menderes nor any other Turkish politician thought the matter important enough to warrant more than passing mention in their speeches. At the Paris summit meeting this winter, most European NATO members dithered unhappily over the wisdom of accepting U.S. missile bases; Menderes spoke up to announce that Turkey...