Word: stagesful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A 1,000,000-lb. engine, says Rocketdyne, would open new possibilities. Combined with appropriate secondary stages, it could put a 20,000-lb. satellite in a polar orbit 1,000 miles high. It could carry 6,200 Ibs. of payload around the moon, 2,000 Ibs. around Mars. With...
The Benson bill, strongly favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, had in fact sneaked up on Congress in the wake of the President's veto of the no-good price-freeze farm bill last March. Its principal achievement was that it was a considerable victory over Benson'...
Explorer IV raised the Army's satellite batting average to .750; only Explorer II was a dud. The launching vehicle was the old reliable Jupiter-C-a Redstone rocket as the first stage, topped with assemblies of small solid-propellant rockets. The propellant in the third and fourth stages...
The situation might suggest the kind of triple schizophrenia recently popularized in The Three Faces of Eve; or in Burgess Meredith's controversial production of Hamlet, in which three persons depicted three facets of Hamlet's personality and spoke now successively, now simultaneously. But Laurents has gone a step further...
The Magnificent River. The St. Lawrence is one of the world's great rivers. It drains an area larger than Great Britain and France, carries to the sea more water than the Seine, the Danube and the Thames combined. Filtered through the five Great Lakes, its steel blue waters...