Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinews of Strength. As the U.S. met the pressure at the pressure points, the Pentagon gained new important experience in the actual practice of cold war on both its fighting and its psychological fronts. The Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops...
Another rapidly growing problem: the in-fighting between the Pentagon's ARPA and the civilian-controlled National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ARPA's Johnson recently stomped on NASA's big toe by publicly proclaiming the broad details of NASA's upcoming man-in-space Project Mercury. If anyone can survive the built-in hazards of the job, walk a straight line through the service detours and still know a scientific toe when he sees one, it is Herb York...
...into orbit within two to three years, and return him safely to earth. Although much of the hardware for the shoot has been developed and proved, scientists are still working on the development of new metallurgy and better tracking and recovery systems. Pushing the capsule-enclosed man into space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting man? NASA will carefully choose a team of volunteers, all of whom will get similar training...
...Cover) Appearing and disappearing with bewildering rapidity, the scenes that flashed across history's screen in 1958 often had the disjointed quality of a surrealist movie. Some were dramatic portents of a world to come ? missiles trailing a fiery glow as they took off for deep space, bearing with them a gadget that, when asked, sent back the recorded voice of the President of the U.S., another that reported wondrously complicated readings on radiation far beyond the atmosphere...
Exploring Space. "We may as well go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within...