Word: probing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour before word of the Russian shot, the House space committee recommended that the U.S. probe the moon with a couple of Thor-Able rockets now lying at Cape Canaveral. Even after the news from Moscow, Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield disapproved-"a sign of panic." Underlying the absence of excuses-and the absence of panic-was a general public knowledge that the U.S. had already tried to hit the moon, had failed, had been left trailing by the Russians, but not by very much...
...planet was tiny, as planets go, but it was the first ever put into the solar system by man. The Soviet Union's moon-probe missile-promptly dubbed "Lunik" by the Russians-was a giant achievement in the young history of space exploration, the first time man had ever broken anything free from the tight gravitational hold of earth...
...pressure at the pressure points, the Pentagon gained new important experience in the actual practice of cold war on both its fighting and its psychological fronts. The Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under...
...most profound questions that scientists can ask is: "How did the universe begin?" Last week British Radio-Astronomer A.C.B. Lovell of the University of Manchester predicted that within a few years the new giant radio telescopes, which enable man to probe far deeper into interstellar space than the biggest optical telescope, will provide some sort of an answer. Astronomer Lovell is director of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, whose massive, 250-ft. wire-dish antenna makes it the world's biggest...
...power shut off, and the upper stages coasted flameless for 55 seconds. About 110 miles up and 160 miles distant, the eleven solid-fuel rockets in the second stage ignited as scheduled. The third and fourth stages ignited too, and Pioneer III, Juno II's instrumented moon probe...