Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kettering's senior physics master, Geoffrey Perry, began to suspect the existence of a new Russian launch site last March after his teen-age students recorded signals from the newly launched Cosmos 112 reconnaissance satellite and plotted its orbit. Instead of being inclined to the equator at 65°-the inclination angle of earlier Cosmos orbits-112's orbital path had an angle of 72°. Also, the satellite had been launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter...
...later Cosmos shots, 114 and 121, had orbits inclined at 73°, strengthening Perry's belief that rockets were being launched from a new site. But their paths were too nearly parallel to Cosmos 112's to calculate precisely where their initial orbits all intersected over Russia - which would be the location of the launch site. The Russians themselves provided the needed data in October with the flight of Cosmos 129. Though its orbital inclination was 64.57°, it was launched later in the day than typical 65° Cosmos satellites and landed only 6¾ days later...
...North, 41° East. Using a computer belonging to a Kettering firm, Perry quickly confirmed that Cosmos 129 had also been launched from a new site. With his students, he plotted its orbital path and determined that it intersected the others at 63° north latitude and 41° east longitude, a point near the town of Plesetsk, about 140 miles south of the White Sea port of Archangel. It was from this site, he was convinced, that all four of the mysterious Cosmos satellites had been launched. Though neither Russia nor any U.S. Government source has officially confirmed existence...
...industrial revolution. But this revolt could not have been achieved, he argues, without the broader aspect of secularization, which has its origins in the prophetic message of Judaism and Christianity. In ancient times, says Gogarten, man envisioned himself as a creature entwined with and contained by a divinized cosmos. The uniqueness of Judaism, and more especially of Christianity, was that it challenged this narrow and self-limited view of life, and proclaimed man's freedom under God within the world. As St. Paul told the Galatians: "During our minority we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe...
Seeing the Gospel in its own terms, every age has tried to convey its message in contemporary language. Never before, however, have so many felt the need for so much redefinition. Science, technology, affluence and secularism have eased God out of the cosmos, all but obliterated the supernatural dimension of life. Urbanization has made the rural imagery of Scripture incomprehensible to "hungry sheep" who have never seen one. A radically aggressive atheism demands God's death for the sake of human freedom. New philosophies stare uncomprehendingly at seemingly static Christian doctrines 1,500 years old. For Christians...