Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outer-Space Basketball." Nixon was soon joined in his anti-complacency mood by another powerful Administration member: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Said Dulles, replying to questions about Sputnik at his press conference: "I think it is perhaps a good thing that this satellite was put up in good time so that there would not be an undue complacency. I think [we] felt generally that we were almost automatically ahead of the Russians in every respect. Well, that is not so, and those of us who have been close to the situation have, I think, realized that for some...
...Nixon-Dulles statements did not and could not overcome the general impression that the Administration was taking a bland view of Sputnik. Since the Soviet satellite first swirled skyward, there had been a continuous whirl of top-policy meetings behind closed Washington doors. ("A conference is not a place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense...
...engineering brainpower and research facilities were unlimited, the ideal missile program for the U.S. might indeed be to let all three services go on developing complete missile inventories. But with resources tightly limited, the U.S. cannot afford to let competition sprawl into scatteration and wasteful overlapping. In the post-Sputnik crisis, continuation of interservice rivalry can only be regarded as the easy way out. Some hard decisions must be made, and they must be made in the Pentagon and the White House...
EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar to Sputnik's, the rocket would be refueled by another guided rocket, and then, accelerating fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull, would head for the moon. After the rocket landed, the tank would emerge and by radio control would roll across the moon's surface, televising...