Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during a two-month "tourist season"-the period when the Red Planet's orbit brings it closest to the earth...
...spare time now." When Lyndon Johnson accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Brinkley suggested that the slogan "All the way with L.B.J." should now read "Half the way with L.B.J." Cooped up in a loft. by 12-ft. glassed-in booth that looked as cramped as the cabin of a spaceship, Huntley and Brinkley muffled all organ tones, were obviously so complementary a pair-Brinkley the aperitif, Huntley the cordial-that neither could have done so well alone. They relaxed and let history write itself: while the CBS team hinted at a panic slide away from Kennedy, H. & B. refused...
When the Russians launched their latest satellite, they described it in some detail: it was a practice spaceship, weighing five tons (a new orbiting record), and containing a cabin with the necessary fittings to keep a man alive. There was no man on board, the Russians said, only a dummy the weight of a man. As the satellite cruised around the earth, instruments would report whether conditions inside it were right for a living man. Then the cabin would be detached and brought down to burn up in the atmosphere. The Russians said they would make no attempt to land...
...Washington that it might be more than it seemed. Washington State's well-informed Democratic Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made headlines by announcing: "There is growing reason to suspect that a man may be sitting in the Soviet 'spaceship', circling the globe at this very minute, and that the Soviets may very shortly attempt to return this man-alive-to earth." Major General John B. Medaris, the U.S. Army's former missile chief, suspected the same thing. The Russians are "not so stupid," he guessed...
...tracking stations and amateur moon-watch teams followed the spaceship, which was clearly visible at dawn and dusk. Its three radio transmitters made it easy to track electronically. Four days after the launching, a moon-watch team at Sacramento, Calif, reported that the spaceship had apparently separated into three parts. Soon Air Force and Smithsonian trackers at Cambridge, Mass. concluded that the spacecraft had thrown off small parts, perhaps seven in all, and was on a new and higher orbit whose apogee (high point) had risen from 208.6 miles to 418.5 miles above the earth...