Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This new triumph of Soviet science (see SCIENCE), following almost exactly two years after Sputnik 1, showed that the U.S.S.R. is still ahead of the U.S. in the critical field of space. The U.S.S.R. fired two moon rockets into space, missed once, hit once; the U.S. fired five moon rockets, missed five times. The Soviet success, as such, gave the Soviet Union's Chairman Khrushchev, on the eve of his U.S. visit, perhaps the greatest prestige blast-off of all time...
...less than the U.S.S.R., tingled with the news of man's new scientific leap beyond the earth's atmosphere. "We wish," said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "to congratulate our fellow scientists...
...buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight. "In our buildings,'' says Yamasaki, "we try to think of what happens to a human being as he goes from space to space, and to provide the delight of change and surprise...
...might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost all U.S. bombers and fighters, as well as the commercial jets, has been a big moneymaker. But now, United is spending heavily on rocket and nuclear engines and on dozens of other space projects to get out ahead in rockets as it was in jets...
...right after World War II to get ready. Now, with its Rocketdyne Division making many of the big rocket engines and with a backlog of $758 million for projects running from nuclear reactors to the X-15 (the plane that is expected to be the first to fly into space), North American's profits are on the upturn. They will rise from $26.8 million last year to $28 million in the fiscal year ending this month...