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Something rushed up into the sky and out of the grayness, rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly and vanished again into the gray mystery of the night...
...reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk "as big as a washtub" dive, then shoot violently upward. In New Mexico, a man chased a falling disk up a canyon, found it was a five-by-eight-foot piece of tinfoil...
Waiting for the Senate's weekend recess, newsmen heard a crackling noise from the main corridor of the Senate wing. The old English Minton floor tiles, laid in the 1850s and now irreplaceable, had begun to heave upward. They buckled into a ridge 20 feet long. Capitol architects guessed the cause was a sudden change of temperature. Reporters happily accepted the theory that someone had opened a door from the Senate chamber and let out a blast...
...designers know now, theoretically, about what the rocket will do. The jet will develop a maximum thrust of about 11½ tons. This will last for 75 seconds, raising the rocket (with a minimum pay load of 100 lbs.) to 38 miles above the earth. Then it will coast upward to 237 miles before its momentum is exhausted. Its greatest speed coming down will be 8,200 ft. per second (4,833 m.p.h.). Maximum pay load: one ton. The Navy does not estimate publicly how far the rocket will travel horizontally. Since it rises nearly twice as high...
From that point upward, says Lockheed's Designer Clarence Johnson, "the drag curve is almost vertical." No matter how much power is applied, the P-80R will fly only a little faster...