Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the sputnik crossed the sky, it took U.S. satellite watchers by surprise. The Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., designed to correlate visual observations, was still unfinished. In spite of frantic efforts to make sense of reports flowing in from all over the country, its experts could not determine the sputnik's orbit until figures came from the Moscow radio...
...Russians have put a little ball up in the air, and it seems that the United States is pretty excited about it. "We aren't trying to win a race," the scientists insist, rather half-heartedly staring into the sky. "No sir, it doesn't mean the Russians are ahead in the missile techniques, no sir, it doesn...
...miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty sky...
...Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown radioed his carrier force in the clear: "A possibly hostile aircraft is approaching your area. If it menaces your formation, use sidewinders [air-to-air missiles carried beneath a plane's wings] to prevent photography." But before hastily launched U.S. Navy delta wing Sky rays could catch it, the twin jet scooted home to Communist territory...
...observers in Columbus made a second sighting at 1:06 a.m., moments after having made radio contact with the satellite. It was visible for three to four seconds as it crossed the sky on a somewhat more southerly course than previously...