Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to alleviate the parking problem which the theatre would create, the University has been negotiating with a nearby garage on an arrangement which would provide ticketholders with parking space. No agreement has yet been reached, however...
...feat had taken a lot of trying. Two earlier space probes were failures and two were qualified successes, reaching 71,000-and 63,000-mile altitudes before falling back to earth. Last week's shoot, bossed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, worked almost exactly as planned. The launching vehicle was a Chrysler-built Army Jupiter beefed up with extra fuel for extra range. Mounted on its massive shoulders were 15 small, solid-fuel rockets arranged to fire in three stages (see diagram). Perched on the nose of the final rocket was the gilded cone itself, Pioneer...
...climbed through the earth's weakening gravitational field, it slowed down. Nineteen hours after launch, it was 190,000 miles from the earth's surface and moving at 4,700 m.p.h. Forty-one hours after launch, it passed the moon's orbit and plunged into translunar space, still moving at 4,525 m.p.h...
...Hundreds of men both in and out of the blockhouse were doing thousands of things. The rocket itself had come awake. In its guidance section, a gyroscopically stabilized platform was accurately aligned with the intended course. When the rocket rose into the sky, the platform would keep steady in space, allowing the rocket's computer brain to steer by it as if it were both a compass and a horizon...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). For those with mathematically esoteric tastes, nothing beats a brisk panel discussion about testing Einstein's relativity by atomic clocks in outer space...