Word: thors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman (Carolyn Jones) who stands between two strong but wrong-headed men, endures all of fate's buffets, and at the film's end is a nubile 60, no worse for wear except for a touch of zinc oxide at the temples. She is the beloved of Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), an honest Norwegian salmon fisherman, until ruthless Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton), a drifting Irishman who is Ryan's best friend, purloins her affections. In Malemute anguish, Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic where, to assuage his grief, he sires...
Cape Canaveral fired a Thor missile with a second-stage Able-Star rocket. Inside a cone atop the Able-Star snuggled the Navy's 223-lb. Transit II-A navigation satellite, a sphere 36 in. in diameter. Transit was the rocket's principal passenger. But with it went a satellite hitchhiker: a 42-lb., 20-in. globe stuffed with instruments to measure solar radiation...
...satellites went aloft attached firmly together. The first-stage Thor fired for about 160 seconds, then fell away while the Able-Star took over, firing for five minutes. Then it shut off its engine and coasted upward and around the earth for 18 more minutes. Over South America the engine blasted again for a few seconds, giving the final push needed to attain an orbit with an apogee of 570 miles and a perigee of 341 miles...
Along such relatively simple lines. General Electric built most of the early nose cones and, considering the state of the art, they were successful enough in the first Thor and Atlas missiles. But they were heavy-and in an ICBM, every ounce of nose cone takes away from the warhead which is the rocket's real reason for being. And the blunt-nosed cones began slowing down while still high in the atmosphere, making them more vulnerable to antimissile missiles as they descended toward earth...
...Doppler Effect. Lofted by an Air Force Thor-Able-Star rocket. Transit I-B slanted around the world from 51° N. to 51° S. and settled into an elliptical orbit (apogee, 475 miles; perigee, 235 miles), sending radio signals from the moment it left the pad. From Texas to Hampshire, England, tracking stations sent information to a computing center near Washington, D.C. In future models, orbit-predicting data will be quickly rebroadcast to the satellite, which will remember its daily itinerary on magnetic tape, constantly announce it from space (the day-to-day orbital variations are minuscule...