Word: rocketeers
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...Yeager's two cracked ribs hurt like hell, but he was darned if a little tumble from a horse in the Mojave Desert was going to stop him from breaking the sound barrier. The U.S. Air Force was counting on him. It was his ninth flight in the experimental rocket plane XS-1, each one having edged closer to Mach 1, the never crossed barrier past which man would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base...
...were almost hit by what appeared to be a tank round. Fortunately, we had learned that the Iraqis are not very good at redirecting fire once they have nearly hit a target. As a further precaution, two Marines prepared to fire a shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon, a rocket that can take out a tank. As they stepped out, another enemy round went off. Missed again...
...reassured the nation about American scientific prowess. Some of the U.S.'s top scientists, like M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush, took refuge behind closed doors until they could figure out what to say. Worry seeped through the nation, always uncomfortable with second place. The U.S. hurried its thin, finely engineered rocket, with a satellite, to the launching pad two months later. But Vanguard lurched, buckled and blew up on the ground. The gentle astronomer John Hagen, who headed Project Vanguard, sucked on his ever present pipe and rightly pointed out that U.S. space science was more sophisticated than that...
...have taken nine men into custody and captured a large cache of weapons, but prize targets?such as ex-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and ex-Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?continue to elude them. Meanwhile, they're facing increasingly ferocious sniper fire, ambushes in the field and more-frequent rocket attacks on their bases. (Soldiers aren't the only targets: the Red Cross suspended operations in the country after one of its workers was murdered by bandits last Friday...
...Between Abu Gharib and Faloujah, to the west of the capital, there are scores of huge Mercedes trucks surrounded by mounds of sand. The Iraqi military may be preparing to use them as rocket launchers. Lots of cannons and anti-aircraft batteries were also seen to the right side of the road. Near Faloujah, there were three, apparently short-range rockets (similar to the Al Samouds) placed horizontally on tracks. The rockets were about 9 feet in length each...