Word: wac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small Beginnings. J.P.L. does little boasting, but it can lay proud claim to being the cradle of U.S. rocketry. Among other things, J.P.L. designed and produced the first successful U.S. high-altitude sounding rocket (the WAC Corporal in 1945), developed the first successful solid-fuel propellant, devised and built the guidance systems that have guided satellites into space, and the instruments that telemeter back what they find. Practically every U.S. missile program has called for its advice. Today it is run by Caltech as the prime deep-space laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with 2,700 employees...
Prestige Saved. After the war, J.P.L. developed the WAC Corporal and its successor, the Corporal E. Long before the Russians fired their Sputnik, J.P.L. had designed and had ready the spinning, clustered upper stages for an Army Redstone that the J.P.L. men insisted would put up a satellite. But not until the Navy's Vanguard fizzled on the sands of Cape Canaveral were they allowed to show what they could do-and redeemed U.S. prestige by flinging Explorer I into orbit. Since then, J.P.L.'s spinning clusters have launched three successful satellites, including the U.S. moon probe (Pioneer...
Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...Perfect Furlough. A bubbly cliche cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs...
...Perfect Furlough. A bubbly cliché cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs...