Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gather data on cosmic radiation. A smaller Nike-Cajun was shot 75 miles high in another ionosphere-probing experiment. The Air Force fired two satellites from Point Arguello, Calif, in secrecy-shrouded round-the-pole missions. And the Russians stayed in the space race by launching their fourth Sputnik in six weeks...
Trying to establish the reciprocal nature of every cold war move, Waskow cited the Soviet Sputnik as an, event that forced the U.S. to divert funds and energy from strictly military research to space projects. He suggested that a billion dollars worth of American aid to India would guarantee a mirror-response because the Russians are already committed to competing for influence there...
FRANCO CORELLI, 37, has risen so rapidly that in Italy he is nicknamed "the Sputnik Tenor." One reason is that he has a classically handsome head...
Money in the Payload. Much of the credit for the fact that Lockheed has become the nation's No. 3 defense contractor (behind General Dynamics and North American Aviation) belongs to the late Bob Gross. In 1946-long before Sputnik -he swung Lockheed into the missile-and-space work that now brings half of its sales. Three-quarters of the payload orbited by the U.S.-including the Discoverer, Midas. Samos-has been lifted by Lockheed's Agena space booster. Lockheed's Polaris missile is the Sunday punch of the nation's fastest-growing defense system, last...
Unlike most of his competitors, McDonnell leapfrogged missiles almost entirely to concentrate on space. Sputnik's blast-off in 1957 inspired McDonnell to start designing a manned space capsule with company money. More than a year later, when the Government finally asked for capsules, far-ahead McDonnell got the job even though its bid was not the lowest, delivered the first Mercury within 13 months. Haste and continual design changes produced some much-publicized goofs, including loose bolts and floating cigarette butts in the capsules. By riding herd on the program personally, determined James McDonnell cleaned out most...