Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vehicle cannot be set in orbit merely by getting it up to the required height; it involves many factors, including speed, rocket stages, angle of firing...
...repository of the free world's power as well as the free world's hope, cannot afford to stake the future upon the enemy's convulsions. The U.S. needs to reawaken to the whole sense of the struggle. Specifically, it needs to re-gear and speed its missile program, and to reshape its alliances with a far greater sense of urgency than Washington has thus far displayed...
...slightly longer (1 hr. 43.7 min.) to complete a circuit. The instrumented section is not designed to separate from the casing of the final-stage rocket, as Sputnik I did. This suggests that the rocket can be deliberately turned tail forward. If it burns fuel in this position, its speed will be reduced, bringing it back to earth...
...orbit. So more than 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel must have been burned to give Little Curly her ride. The loaded rocket, with its fuel, structure, instrumentation and payload, must have weighed considerably more than 1,000,000 Ibs. To lift it off the ground at reasonable speed must have required a rocket motor (or a cluster of them) with something like 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...recent history of the Institute there are two striking examples of this educational theory in practice. The first is the Institute's abandoning the Electronic Computer Project. This project was begun in 1946 by John van Neumann as an attempt to give the mathematician and physicist a high speed computer. At first the task was novel and presented many high-level problems which only a mathematician and physicist of van Neumann's maturity and brilliance could cope with. In 1952, the machine was completed, and applied physicists in various companies began to improve upon the original until the Institute decided...