Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Kennedy is barking up the wrong tree when he accuses the Eisenhower Administration of lack of initiative in the space war. Our country fell behind in the rocket race while the Democrats were playing footsie with the Commies back in the '40s. Kennedy is not the "soaring satellite" TIME dubs him; he's more like a Roman candle...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...briefings blazoned into worldwide headlines, U.S.. READY TO FIRE SATELLITE, said the New York Times, followed by U.S. DELAYS TEST OF SPACE ROCKET. The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph proclaimed: MOON-MINUTES...
...Office of Naval Research said today it has determined the exact cause of Friday's failure to launch a Vanguard satellite rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but that the details cannot be made public...
Giotto's murals are still young, which means that they will probably live until they crumble. Whether or not Rivera's murals, too, will breathe life for generation after generation is unanswerable. An artist of Rivera's stature might be compared to a rocket that dies boosting a satellite in the form of art. Symbolically enough, his last completed picture was of a baby holding a Russian satellite. He was buried with much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter...