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Most scientists feel that the Soviet Union will be the first to place a human in orbit: the U.S.'s Project Mercury, recovering from an embarrassingly slow start, is not far behind, but it will be at least nine months before a U.S. astronaut will enter orbit. "We have," mused one U.S. space expert, "a second-class nag in a first-class horse race." The Soviet achievement should give Russia an exploitable propaganda advantage. But what else, in terms of the basic science that may well decide man's future, will it mean? And what lies beyond mere...
Last week Jerrie's strange disappearance was explained in Stockholm by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of the Special Committee on the Life Sciences for Project Mercury, the U.S. astronaut program. Jerrie Cobb had spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish...
...shot was the first of a series de signed to test the re-entry and recovery possibilities of the one-ton space cabin, a duplicate of the capsule in which the first astronaut will ride in the first attempted manned space flight-originally scheduled for this year but now probably delayed until 1961. As far as National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists could tell, the Atlas had been programing properly; the failure was a result of an "explosion or structural disintegration" of the missile...
Permitted to participate in the Mobil-gas contest only since 1957, womankind furnished 20 of the 56 drivers in the 1960 run. Among them were a grandmother, seven housewives, a bobbysoxer, a women's-club president, a would-be astronaut and a cafe singer. The run is publicly billed by automakers as a true test of miles-per-gallon efficiency. But most of Detroit agrees that the skill of the driver makes about a 25% difference. Last week, in the top three of the competition's six classes, woman drivers took two firsts, one second...
Present plans call for the United States to boost its first Mercury astronaut into orbit in 1961 and to land instruments on the moon...