Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 6--The United States yesterday fired a double-barreled rejection of Soviet charges of air space violations and said Moscow, not Washington, is dimming the chances of success at the coming Geneva talks on Germany...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration approved models of one-ton mushroom-shaped satellite capsules designed to fly men into space in the early 1960s. The model satellites survived preliminary tests of rocket shots into the atmosphere, drops from high-altitude aircraft, wind-tunnel speeds of 10,000 m.p.h., and justified what NASA termed "significant progress" toward "a safe and reliable, manned satellite capsule...
...Johnson, head of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, told a Senate space subcommittee that ARPA is spending $1,000,000 on a wild-blue-yonder project designed to fly a 1,000-ton manned platform through space by baby A-bomb nuclear power. Not long ago, said he, the project was called "screwball"-but it "looks a little less screwball...
Nikita Khrushchev laughed when the U.S. finally got Vanguard I into space, and likened it to an orange. Last week the 3¼-lb. satellite soared into its second year in regions where huge Russian satellites have long since died. Vanguard's orbit, which climbs up to 2,500 miles and never comes lower than 400 miles, has hardly changed. Vanguard I has traveled something over 132 million miles. Its clear radio voice, powered by solar batteries, is still chirping as cheerily as ever, is expected to hold out for at least 200 years...
...Army Map Service sets up mobile tracking stations on various islands. When Vanguard I passes overhead, the trackers determine its bearing at an exact time, in microseconds. Stations on the mainland, which have been following the satellite for a year, can calculate Vanguard's position in space at the instant when it was observed from the island. From this information the position of the island can be charted. As a result, points on Wake, Guam and Kwajalein have been found to be almost one mile out of position. The islands are being replotted with a maximum possible error...