Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the distant blue sky...
...open sky...
...Sky. As man ventures forth into space, General Dynamics is sure to have a planet-sized chunk of any U.S. undertaking. The company's task, as Frank Pace sees it, is not to reach too far ahead, but to plan carefully what it feels can be accomplished in the next 25 years. Its scientists have already placed on Washington desks a four-phase plan that would put manned satellites into space within five years. An improved Atlas would, by mid-1959, put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit 350 miles up to transmit televised images to earth. This would...
...largest and heaviest of the Army's ballistic weapons, the 69-foot-long, six-feet thick Redstone blasted off into a starry, almost cloudless sky and appeared to make a successful flight...
This sort of organization seems to be spreading. In thickly populated Eastern states the cops hamper even the more serious rocketeers, but in Texas, Utah and other states with plenty of room, many societies of intent teenagers, under proper supervision, are aiming their flame-tipped tubes at the sky...