Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result is a bewildering jumble of new forms and shapes-forged, soldered, puddled, riven and wrought-that can look as crude as slagheap clinkers, as ethereal as tomorrow's TV aerials or as menacing as the latest rocket launcher...
...scientists explained, was going to rocket-fire a satellite, about the size of a basketball, between 200 and 300 miles into space; the satellite would then circle the earth in its orbital path for several days or weeks, at the speed of 18,000 m.p.h. (see SCIENCE). The scientists had not yet determined what the satellite would be made of, but thought it would cost about $10 million, exclusive of the launching operation...
Balloon or Cylinder. Before this fiery end, a satellite will serve its creators in many ways. One type (many different kinds can be shot into space) may be merely visible: a balloon that expands out of the nose of the final stage of a multistage rocket. It can be followed by telescope or perhaps by radar, and the path that it follows around the earth will give information about the density of the upper atmosphere. If big enough, this kind of satellite will appear at dusk as a bright and rapidly moving star that rises in the west...
...Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...
What hope is left for the space enthusiasts? Using present fuels and the free-fall orbit, says Porter, they may be able soon to set up a man-made earth satellite. But only a compact atomic-powered rocket could build up enough speed without excessive fuel loads to enable men to ignore intricate navigation and steer through the heavens as they choose...