Word: yondering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood was the spirit of the wild black yonder as the seven Mercury Astronauts, after rigorous physical and psychological tests, were presented to the public with the promise that one of them will be space-bound in two years. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rendezvous with Destiny...
...Johnson, head of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, told a Senate space subcommittee that ARPA is spending $1,000,000 on a wild-blue-yonder project designed to fly a 1,000-ton manned platform through space by baby A-bomb nuclear power. Not long ago, said he, the project was called "screwball"-but it "looks a little less screwball...
...Zeus system, in which antimissiles will be fired automatically at incoming missiles, once detected. But in BMEWS, in the general sense, the U.S. will get a welcome new weapon for the missile gap until more advanced systems of early-warning-and-missile defense become available. Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors of sky impassable to missiles by the 1970s-1980s, much as they have in space fiction for years...
...Research and Engineering, will have supervisory control over the $2.5 billion Defense Department scientific projects-but no scientific budget of his own. Enmeshed in the program are all the stubborn duplications, fears and rivalries of different services whose planners and dreamers demand a separate piece of the wild-blue-yonder projects. The Air Force, for example, got miffed at ARPA when ARPA's Johnny-come-lately Boss Roy Johnson took much of the credit for the successful launching of the orbiting Atlas (TIME, Dec. 29), which, after all, was an Air Force ICBM...
Unlike Maurice Maeterlinck, whose The Life of the Bee used the insects in part as a flight vehicle for his own soarings into the wild extramundane blue yonder, dedicated Beekeeper Crompton lets the bees buzz for themselves. He follows them, with cries of pride and lamentation, from their hexagonal cradles to their grave in the grass...