Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6--A rocket similar to the German V2 now in American hands is capable of shooting a man to the 186-mile height reportedly achieved by the Russians, a scientist said tonight...
MOSCOW, Jan. 6--The Soviet Union has launched an experimental rocket 300 kilometers (186.42) miles into the atmosphere with a human aboard, reliable sources here said tonight. The man aboard the rocket parachuted successfully to earth, these sources said...
...John S. Rinehart, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said the rocket Russians reportedly used to put a man aloft did not have to be nearly as large as that required to launch a satellite...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
Married. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 47, the U.S. Air Force's rocket-sledding space surgeon, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" committee; and Lillian Lanese, 33, El Paso ballet teacher; both for the first time; in El Paso...