Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--A Mercury space capsule was hurled 35,000 feet high today by a Little Joe rocket, moving America open step nearer getting a man into space...
They're sending up a rocket to photograph the other side of the United States Government. Here to fore un photographed, this side, always dark and turned away from us, has long been a subject of great scientific curiosity and intense speculation. The old rivalry over which branch of the Armed Services would take responsibility for the rocket is over now, and, following a joint declaration by the White House staff, and several misfires, the huge thing has finally gone up. It will be directed through a previously planted tracking station somewhere between the Crater of Security Clearance...
...moves had been made before. His order reversed his own decision of last year to let the Army keep its space mission and the Von Braun team, also heavily modified Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order of last month that the Air Force would be responsible for space-rocket vehicles. Actually, many thoughtful Army officers were glad to be free of the costly distractions of space to concentrate on overdue modernization of equipment and tactics for atomic-war ground troops...
...division of responsibility has lost months for Von Braun's Saturn program, the U.S.'s best chance to match the big Soviet moon rockets in the mid-1960s. Von Braun proposed Saturn, with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik I revealed the U.S.S.R.'s enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director...
They presented this analysis of photographs ascribed to picture-taking apparatus aboad Lunik III--used Oct. 7 as the Soviet rocket station passed beyond the moon...