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IN the wake of a series of spectacular developments in the exploration of space (see SCIENCE and NATIONAL AFFAIRS), some 35,000 Western Electronic Manufacturers Association convention goers this week will file into the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and be greeted by a timely display of satellite replicas, ranging...
When the electronic exhibitors arrived last week to set up the convention's 987 booths, the reproduction that stole the show was the Discoverer capsule, about to plop into the waiting butterfly net of a C-119; it was the very morning of the Air Force's first...
Poet John Donne once listed "goe and catche a falling star" among life's impossible jobs. And Air Force Captain Harold E. Mitchell, who had been assigned the chore, last week had reason to agree: he had missed the week before. His specially equipped C-119 Flying Boxcar, patrolling...
Narrow Margin. Last week Mitchell got another chance. Discoverer XIV had been fired atop a Thor-Agena rocket from Vandenberg, Calif., and once again Mitchell's squadron was alerted. Mitchell slapped a cap on his red-thatched head, kissed his wife and promised: "I'll get it this...
The Good News Came. Gross was also counting on other good news. Last week for example, Lockheed's Agena-Discoverer satellite produced a space "first" when its nose cone was recovered after being placed in orbit (see SCIENCE). Lockheed is the prime contractor for the orbiting Midas satellite, which...