Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school on a quota. One boy is working 25 hours a week after hours to earn enough money to build his own laboratory. Another boy got limited security clearance from the Air Research and Development Command so that he can work during the summer testing rocket fuels at the missile base...
This research has not yet produced anything like space flight. There is an enormous difference between an intercontinental guided missile and an "inhabited" spaceship or satellite. But the missiles, nevertheless, are excellent instruments of approach. Their rocket motors, thin-skinned tanks, delicate guidance systems, etc. can also be used for hitting the moon with a charge of flash powder. This is considered less difficult than boosting a heavy thermonuclear warhead-to a city-sized target 5,000 miles away, and some Air Force groups think that it would be worth doing as a demonstration of U.S. spacemanship. It is probable...
Warheads on air-to-air rockets, which can be carried by such interceptors as the null null and F-102, can be set to give a predetermined yield of bomber-killing heat, radiation and shock effect; a single burst can make an area of two-to-five cubic miles uninhabitable by an enemy bomber. Moreover, an atomic rocket can down a low-flying enemy bomber while causing only minimum radioactive contamination of the ground area below, since new warheads have been designed with a low fallout yield...
...back the Navaho program by a sharp 90% in 1958. Yet North American expects to be in healthy shape. Along with Boeing, the company is deep in design studies for a radical new supersonic bomber. Even better, North American was one of the first to jump into rocket engines, and its Rocketdyne division has juicy contracts for missile projects, including the huge Martin and Convair ICBMs...
RASCAL MISSILE, an air-to-surface, electronically guided rocket that carries a nuclear warhead, will go into limited production. Bell Aircraft Corp. has been awarded $22 million in Air Force contracts to make and test prototypes...