NCHMCT JEE 2010 Question Paper with solutions for online practice
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Not many people know that when the space race first began in right earnest in 1950s, the US could actually have launched a satellite before the Russian sent Sputnik I aloft. A US Army rocket which roared up from Cape Canaveral on October 20,1957 could have achieved orbital speed easily, but for government orders that insisted on having an empty dummy for the rocket's last stage, robbing America of a historic first. Infact, it eventually took Werner von Braun's team just 80 days to ready a satellite, once President Eisenhower's belated nod came through. So, in a way history seems to have repeated itself on Monday on the arid stretches of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, when the rocket-powered British car, the Thrust SSC, speed its way into the record books, breaking the speed of sound (March 1) and in the process, beating its US competitor the Spirit of America. The latter was odds-on favourite to break the sonic silence, having earlier nudged March 0.90 during test runs, before its aerodynamic designers called off further trials to allow more time for structural improvements. But, of course, this is in no way detracts from the magnificent effort of the British team that worked round-the-clock to make what cavillers had often described as a fool's landfall-the magic figure of March 1, which has always been the holy girl of landspeedsters.
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Not many people know that when the space race first began in right earnest in 1950s, the US could actually have launched a satellite before the Russian sent Sputnik I aloft. A US Army rocket which roared up from Cape Canaveral on October 20,1957 could have achieved orbital speed easily, but for government orders that insisted on having an empty dummy for the rocket's last stage, robbing America of a historic first. Infact, it eventually took Werner von Braun's team just 80 days to ready a satellite, once President Eisenhower's belated nod came through. So, in a way history seems to have repeated itself on Monday on the arid stretches of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, when the rocket-powered British car, the Thrust SSC, speed its way into the record books, breaking the speed of sound (March 1) and in the process, beating its US competitor the Spirit of America. The latter was odds-on favourite to break the sonic silence, having earlier nudged March 0.90 during test runs, before its aerodynamic designers called off further trials to allow more time for structural improvements. But, of course, this is in no way detracts from the magnificent effort of the British team that worked round-the-clock to make what cavillers had often described as a fool's landfall-the magic figure of March 1, which has always been the holy girl of landspeedsters.
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