Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEFORE the U.S. can get going at top speed on a full-scale space program, it must cope with two big problems. It must clear the lines of bureaucratic responsibility and see that the space program is directed with determined authority; last month the President made a start on this problem, but only a start, when he transferred the Army's space team to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (TIME, Nov. 2). The second and overriding problem: the U.S. must develop an official understanding of the need for urgency in getting into space-or what Washington might call...
...steady progression of Russian experiments-from Sputnik to hitting the moon to photographing the moon's far side, to extensive space tests with animals-indicates a Soviet determination to get man into space, and get him there as fast as possible. It also indicates that the moon is the Russians' first space objective...
...would spend less fuel in blastoff, could use it to increase speed of travel. Even with today's rocket engines, says the Air Force's Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours [and perhaps] minutes...
...date, the Administration has tended to rationalize its space program as part of a prestige battle with no driving belief in the necessity of securing space objectives-or so its erratic progress on the space program indicates. Gimmicks, as the President's "voice rocket" proved last year, are shortlived and ineffectual. Prestige for unnumbered years will go automatically to the nation that is successful in reaching the moon and making it a steppingstone to further space exploration. And the nation that first lands men and instruments on the moon will be the one whose political and economic outlook becomes...
...week in a shabby office cluttered with pictures of such old friends as Marlene Dietrich (he wrote her first biography), Albert Schweitzer, and Thomas Mann. Most of Aufbau's feature articles come from outside contributors and George does the drama and movie reviews himself. With 60% of its space devoted to ads. Aufbau turns a handsome profit, last year gave $47,700 to needy refugees...