Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this dark plot, according to rumor, is famed Wernher von Braun, chief creator of the German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus), and unless stopped by higher authority, Army missile men may try to beat the Navy to space...
Armed with an atom bomb, even the peaceful Terrapin would be a formidable weapon. A dozen or more could be carried in an Army truck. They could be unloaded, aimed and fired by the truck's crew. Each rocket could have its own launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...
...artificial satellite on an orbit around the earth is in "free fall." So is a rocket cruising through space with its motor cold. People on board a satellite or rocket would feel weightless, and space medicine experts have long feared that unaccustomed freedom from gravitation will upset human organs or nerves...
Toward the Unknown (Warner), which attempts to tell the story of the Bell X2, the Air Force's experimental rocket plane, will probably get a rocket boost at the box office from recent headlines. In July the X-2 set a speed record (1,900 m.p.h.) for manned aircraft. Last month it set the altitude record: 126,000 ft. above sea level. Then it crashed in the desert...
Bill Holden, starring in his first independent picture, is the rocket jockey; and as if it is not hard enough to fly an airplane at 1,900 m.p.h.. the script makes him fly it with a big load of guilt-edged insecurities riding inside his crash helmet...