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Word: advan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be the time "when it will be more efficient to send up a man or a party of men to make observations, digest them and transmit back what is roughly equivalent to a monograph on the subject." Only half facetiously. Van Allen has one more idea about the advan tages of men over instruments in space: "There are many more subtle things that a man could report, such as 'Gee whiz, I have a terrible headache' or 'I have just vomited all over the cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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