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...than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...
First a ring of explosive anchor screws blew off the cone's back cover (see diagram). Fifteen seconds later, when the cone was about 5,000 ft. above the sea, a small explosive charge fired a tight-packed parachute out of a mortar-like container. It was a ribbon chute made of concentric rings of strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag...
...satellite's instruments into IGY headquarters in Washington and other official centers, in an ever-increasing flood. Analysis of the reports is a long, painstaking business, but already some of the data have been made public. The Explorer's orbit has been pinpointed fairly accurately (see diagram). According to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., it crosses the equator at an angle of 33.5°, and takes 115 minutes to complete a circuit of the earth. The Smithsonian scientists do not think this figure will change appreciably for about seven years. Other early reports showed...
...Site. These negative findings pinpointed the site of the damage: "the area of Broca"* (see diagram), which controls many components of the complex processes that result in speech. Like most of the brain lying near the surface, Broca's area gets its blood supply from one of the countless branches of the middle cerebral artery. The particular branch supplying Broca's area is not much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That...
...plan (see diagram below) treats three floors as a unit. Student suites--typically four individual study-bedrooms and a common living room and bath--are so arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...