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...Aeronautics and Space Administration named six more-and a couple of them can't even fly. Four of the new men are scientists with Ph.D.s; the other two are physicians. NASA hopes to utilize their scientific skills after manned flights to the moon become an accomplished fact.*The astro-scientists...
...time they are through with their training, the astro-scientists will be able to fly space capsules as well as jets. They will probably do some spacecraft piloting, but their main function will be as expert passengers in moon flights four or five years from now. Explains Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston: "After we've developed a transportation system to the moon and back, we can enjoy the luxury of scientific experiments...
Well, they can't in the Astrodome either - in daytime, anyway. Last week its resident tenants, the Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead...
...sciences come back strong now with new Bio. 115, Astro. 1 ("Stars"), Chem. 1 ("Black Magic") and Chem. 11 ("Black Magic for Magicians...
...spite of their horror of early morning classes, many students slight the afternoon's varied opportunities. If they knew of it, few would want to miss Astro. 233, "Applications of Stellar Spectroscopy," by Professor Payne-Gaposchkin, especially since Astro. 233 is to be omitted in 1964-65 and apparently has no prerequisites...