Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...landing in fog. Said he : "Radio, at the present time, is a bit too delicate for fog work. It is subject to fluctuations and it may go out of condition. ... I personally prefer to work up something much more simple." The "something simple," it transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison was already experimenting. He has devised a day-or-night rocket to explode at 4,000 ft. and hoped to adjust the explosion to give an incoming pilot an accurate idea of the airport location and the height of the fogbank. Another line of experimentation, he suggested...
...crowd at a fair in Port Royal, Pa. sat quietly in the dark watching the fireworks display one evening last week. As a big rocket hissed over their heads lighting up the grandstand, a small boy shouted to them to "look at the big dog." Sitting unnoticed in the stand was the fair's lion, escaped from his cage. Children screamed. The lion roared. Several thousand people rushed to the exits. State troopers drew their revolvers, formed a circle about the beast while keepers lassoed...
...annoyed by bizarre moon publicity is Clark University's Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of the rocket exploration idea, that he has shrouded his rocket research with secrecy, has refused all interviews. News stories last year told how the greatest Goddard rocket (9 ft. long) exploded 1,000 ft. in the air, disappointed him and so terrified Worcester (Mass.) townspeople that they moved to prevent any further rocket shooting (TIME, July 29, 1929). Last week better news came when it was announced that Daniel Guggenheim, air-minded philanthropist, had given Rocketeer Goddard $25,000 for experiments, would give...
Thus funded, Dr. Goddard will now set to building powerful rockets which will carry aloft barometers, thermometers, air sampling traps. When the rocket's fuel is exhausted a parachute will open, the rocket will fall gently to the earth without damaging the instruments...
Small Goddard rockets utilizing this fuel have been weighted, ignited, allowed to rise a measurable distance. Only in this way may accurate rocket data be gathered. Dr. Goddard declines .to confirm reports that he is now building a new giant test rocket, soon to be sent skyward from a Government-loaned field at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass...