Word: rocketmen
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...note of caution has crept into the soundbites of various Israeli military officers. Gone are the boasts that Hizballah will be hammered into oblivion. Instead, they're urging diplomacy and calling for the presence of a robust international peace-keeping force along the border to halt Hizballah's rocketmen. Meanwhile, as casualties rise, many of Israel' s formidable chariots of war are being pressed into ambulance service...
...such project, long in the planning stage, is the construction of Dyna-Soar, a controllable, maneuverable space vehicle capable of skimming the atmosphere on hot, stubby wings and of landing on a chosen spot, not merely drifting down by parachute like the Vostok or Freedom 7. Now veteran rocketmen are talking of beating Dyna-Soar off the pad. They are suggesting a solid-fuel rocket with upper-stage rockets powerful enough to put the present X-15 into orbit. Long before the Russians get a true plane into space, the U.S. might have the X-15 circling the world. Once...
...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...
...Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only 25, was put in charge of the technical side of the program. When the Reich collapses. Von Braun & Co. flee south to offer their secrets and services to the U.S. Army. Set up in White Sands. N. Mex., the rocketmen start plodding down the long trail of tests that leads at last to the launching of the first U.S. satellites...
Goddard died in 1945 on the eve of the first U.S. test firings of captured V-28, leaving behind 22 volumes of meticulous records that proved to be of immense value to U.S. rocketmen. Six years later, as equal beneficiaries of his estate, Goddard's widow and the Guggenheim Foundation sued the U.S. Government for patent infringements. Last week, in belated recognition of Goddard's genius, the U.S. agreed to a settlement of $1,000,000. It was the largest patent-infringement award ever made by the U.S. Government...