Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, were candidates for the mark of becoming the first human to travel in space. Despite the rub-a-dub-dub of press-agentry, they emerged as ordinary, hardworking, courageous airmen who were willing to chance death in the hope of finding the future that lies in some far sky...
Many of the reports issued by brokers present sober, useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss...
...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...Chance in 200. What Gralla and his crew had come to shoot were three 57-ft. X-17A solid-propellant rockets, each tipped with a 1.5 kiloton atomic warhead (equivalent in blast to 1,500 tons of TNT). Since he had no target to hit except the wide sky, Gralla's job might have seemed simple, but in fact it was fantastically difficult. To enable the rockets to travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely...
...Telemetry-on. Radar beacon-on. DOVAP*-on." Hundreds of men both in and out of the blockhouse were doing thousands of things. The rocket itself had come awake. In its guidance section, a gyroscopically stabilized platform was accurately aligned with the intended course. When the rocket rose into the sky, the platform would keep steady in space, allowing the rocket's computer brain to steer by it as if it were both a compass and a horizon...