Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole...
Shy, scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For...
Pianist Allen got the idea for the album when he heard Alto Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley insist on TV one evening that jazz criticism is "a joke." Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer...
At 5:15 a.m. Moore finally got Venus in the telescope sights. A tracking system held the image in the telescope's focus for a few minutes. Then the balloon started slowly down, drifting south over Nebraska and into Kansas. As they approached the ground, the crew cut the...
When the Little Joe reached 150,000ft., the escape rocket fired, pulling capsule free from the main rocket subjecting Sam to a brief jolt of 17-19g. The capsule coasted up to 55 miles altitude, then arched down. A parachute lowered it safely into the sea, 200 miles away...