Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL DEFENSE The Price of Life Streaming through Washington last week like a rocket's vapor trail was the news of a mysterious report on U.S. defense that had been handed the National Security Council and the White House for top-secret study. Newsmen who traced the smoke to the rocket found that the report was the work of the little-known Gaither committee, headed by onetime Ford Foundation President H. Rowan Gaither Jr. and set up six months ago by the President...
This month's Jet Propulsion is devoted to hypervelocity flight-the perilous maneuvers of futuristic vehicles flying at 10,000 m.p.h. and more in the thin, high fringe of the atmosphere. In the eyes of out-front rocket men, the ballistic missiles that dominate today's military dreams are pretty crude jobs, outmoded even before they are built. Since they follow elliptical courses through space, they must climb more than 1,000 miles to reach a respectable horizontal range. The climb costs vast amounts of fuel, making the missiles expensive and unwieldy. The curve of re-entry...
...When the rocket re-enters the atmosphere it could travel about 1000 miles before landing, leaving a blazing trail if it falls at night. If it re-enters in the daytime, it could leave a dark trail in the sky as it gives off particles and vapor...
Whipple reported that the observatory will notify all Moon watch teams and the Armed Forces to be on the alert over the weekend, even during hours when the rocket might not be visible...
...observatory would welcome any chance of examining any parts of the rocket, the astronomer concluded, and would welcome all sightings on objects in the sky, even if they are real meteors...