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...Balloon Tanks. The vehicle, Rosen told the National Capital Astronomers, will be a three-stage rocket 72 ft. long and 45 in. in maximum diameter. It will have no fins, but will depend for steering on its movable rocket motor and an array of small gas-jets. The tanks holding the propellants (liquid oxygen and gasoline for the first stage, nitric acid and dimethyl-hydrazine for the second) will be thin-walled to save weight, and will have little strength when empty. When they are full and highly pressurized with helium, they will become as rigid as auto tires...
...show snatches of Braque, Picasso or any particular influence. His figures are monumental and organic reminiscent but not quite like the billowing sculpture of Henry Moore. All the figures have calves that look like Captain Kidd's peg, which is slightly disconcerting at times especially coming forth from balloon-like limbs. But in this as in other exaggerations he is striving for rhythm. The roundness of the figures, their repeated curved gestures and the arrangement of objects reinforce the swinging effect. Even the paint, or rather melted wax (encaustic) helps to quicken movement applied as it often is in windy...
...sheltering atmosphere. At last week's symposium, Major David G. Simons of the Air Force's Space Biology Laboratory, reported that recent experiments have been somewhat reassuring. For five years Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. has been sending mice, guinea pigs and monkeys on 24-hour balloon flights. Enclosed in pressurized and air-conditioned capsules, the animals rise as high as 100,000 ft. Two of the monkeys have had 63 hours of flying time above 90,000 ft., where primary rays are rampant...
...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
...first balloon launched fell in the Pacific near the U.S. West Coast. The second followed a sinuous course, cruising southeast from Japan, passing south of Midway Island, then veering north to pass 900 miles north of Hawaii. It entered the U.S. near the Oregon-California boundary and finally landed near Jackson, Miss. The whole trip (roughly 10,000 miles) took three days and two hours. The balloon's maximum speed when pushed by the high-altitude jet stream was 200 m.p.h. The third balloon cannot be located because of instrument failure, but the next four were launched successfully. When...