Word: thors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of 25,486 P-51 fighters and B-25 bombers. In later years, Kindelberger switched to the space race, regrouping his company into six divisions that pulled out, among other rabbits, the X-15 rocket plane, a $2 billion contract to build the Apollo moonship, hundreds of Thor and Atlas missile engines...
Three minutes after the Thor rocket made its predawn blastoff from Cape Canaveral, a new star flared bright yellow across the dark sky. Tiny by standard star measurements, the man-made balloon of plastic and aluminum was 135 ft. in diameter-tall as a 13-story building, and large enough to be seen by the unaided...
...failed last week in its second attempt to explode a nuclear test at high altitude over Johnston Island in the Pacific. Official reason for the flop: "a malfunction in the system." Since nuclear devices almost always explode as planned, the malfunction was probably in the Thor rocket on which the bomb was riding. Until other scapegoats are available, critics can blame 1) the haste with which rocket-launching equipment was thrown together on remote Johnston Island; 2) failure to use reliable solid-fuel rockets (Polaris or Minuteman) instead of the obsolescent Thor, which burns notoriously troublesome liquid oxygen...
...details were familiar and ugly. A French officer blown up in his bed. Gendarmes shot through the skull from be hind. Men, women and children indiscriminately murdered by machine guns fired from speeding autos. A Moslem au thor killed by mistake - because someone had spelled a name wrong...
...down seconds after ignition. But by week's end, the trend toward repeated failure was reversed as the skies were peppered with missiles. A second Pershing flew properly. The first International Satellite-a joint effort by the U.S. and Great Britain-was successfully nudged into orbit by a Thor-Delta rocket to 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...