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...fight was actually precipitated two weeks ago, when Israeli gunners shot down an Egyptian Sukhoi 7 reconnaissance plane because, they said, it had flown over Israel's fortified Bar-Lev Line on the canal's east bank. Egypt retaliated by sending SAM missiles aloft to knock down an aging SA-2 transport, which Israel said was flying several miles away from the canal. Seven men were killed when the Stratocruiser crashed in the Sinai desert, 15 miles from the waterway. Israeli Phantoms avenged them by raking Egyptian positions near the west bank with rockets. The Egyptians fired back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Outburst at Suez | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Florida Force. During the 1961 Berlin crisis, the "first generation" of Discoverer satellites was aloft, and John Kennedy was able to show Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko photographs indicating exactly how few iCBMs the Soviets really had. "I believe," says Klass, "that after Gromyko saw those pictures he persuaded Khrushchev to back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Spies Above | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...made no move to stop it. No one else has written in comparable detail about spy satellites. Klass describes, for example, the nation's latest SAMOS (satellite and missile observation system), "the Big Bird," launched just two months ago. A giant, twelve-ton spacecraft capable of working aloft for at least several months, the Big Bird combines the capabilities of several earlier satellites. It can transmit high-quality pictures by radio, and eject capsules of exposed film which then drop by parachute. The Big Bird also includes infra-red heat-sensing equipment that allows it to "see" through Siberian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Spies Above | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...Astronaut Irwin in his published report, the moon "can be beautiful to anyone who loves the mountains of earth." The mountains of the moon, he remembered with pleasure, "were not gray or brown." The reflection of early morning sun gave them a "glow of gold." Even Al Worden, orbiting aloft "like a bird soaring without sound," said "I shall never forget the moon that I circled 74 times. There were moments of beauty and moments of visual surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Stunning Scenes from a Desolate Moonscape | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...bounces us gently in its wake and I shudder. We gas up; off to the southwest we see storm clouds and lightning. Never mind: we're off again. For a moment, I think of those scary instructions picked up back in New York: if both pilots conk out aloft, set the radio dials at 121.5 and ask whoever answers how to land a plane. But then we are past the storm, and 80 minutes later the lights of Los Angeles twinkle into view. After nine days, $60, and only one would-be masher, I've made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hitchhiking by Air | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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