Word: moonshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After last week's misfire, an anonymous "high administration official" charged that NASA was "stupid" and "naive" in the planning of its moonshot program. He was right. But much of the stupidity and naivete lay with the high official's cohorts, who have yet to speed up the Atlas production line-still proceeding at a leisurely 50% of capacity at the Convair plants in San Diego...
...that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar to the lost missile fired from the Cape last week in a nose-cone configuration test...