Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
...trouble. Allied trackers around the world noted that Cosmic Ill's original orbit (only 154.72 miles above the earth at its apogee, 111.94 miles at its perigee) was the lowest yet assumed by any satellite, Russian or American, and dangerously close to the upper atmosphere. After the spaceship had made 18 revolutions around the earth, U.S. and British trackers suddenly lost contact with...
...post-civilization would be scientifically-oriented as opposed to the literary-dominated civilization of today. He visualized a city-less world approximating "one big Los Angeles." The marks of the new society would be its "larger lines of individual choice" and the self-contained household, that is, a spaceship...
...parachutes," says one U.S. scientist. "Ideally, we will want to land the full vehicle and its occupants, re-use the vehicle for other flights." Probable method: orbital reentry. Rather than plunge directly into earth's atmosphere and risk crushing G forces or a fiery disintegration from friction, a spaceship would ease into a wide orbit around the earth, cut its speed with retrorockets, and circle slowly to a landing. Orbital reentry also would permit the space pilot to pick out a precise landing point...
This is the landing system that will be employed by Dyna-Soar, the Air Force's $700 million, Boeing-built, maneuverable space vehicle, scheduled for first flight tests about 1964. Designed to be fired into orbit atop a Titan missile, Dyna-Soar is the closest thing to a spaceship in development now in the U.S. The dog capsule appears to put Russia well ahead of the U.S. in spaceship manufacture; its massive weight indicates that the passenger cabin probably will be large enough to support a crew of three men for a sustained period of flight...