Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurdle to be overcome has been the minor position to which the government has, in the past, consigned non-military research. The National Science Foundation, for instance, was asked to administer satellite development on a budget of 20 million dollars. Moreover, it was forced to pay the expenses of rocket tests at military proving grounds...
...necessary to institute a push of the dimensions of the Manhattan Project, but some sort of combined administration for the missile-rocket development is needed. We may not look seriously on petty inter-service squabbles, but when they affect our attempts to conquer space, they must be controlled...
...supplementary defense appropriation approved either at a special session of Congress or early in its next session is mandatory. An overall coordination of scientific and military effort in rocket research is imperative. And, necessary for the attainment of the other objectives, a general realization of the state of American science and a discarding of former smug self-satisfaction are musts. With these revisions in our outlook and actions, the United States stands to gain perhaps more than it lost after the Sputnik launching...
...poitned out that scientists are just beginning to get really reliable observations on the object's path, so that accurate determinations may yet explain the behavior of the rocket...
After a short wait they spotted the rocket arcing over the horizon at 6:09 a.m., and hailed it with hearty shouts of "Skoal" accompanied by numerous toasts. After the object had disappeared, the tutors returned to calculate the results of their observations. Some of the party, however, were unable to compute with any exactness...