Word: discovereres
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Early in his task for this week's cover, Artzy decided that the U.S. satellites-designed to seek scientific data-must be personified with definite professional functions. Starting with a dilettantish 0-119 trying to catch a Discoverer capsule with a butterfly net, he proceeded to produce (in clockwise...
The Flower Bed. A common saying among scientists is that if a science is free of controversy, it is a dead science. On that basis, the U.S. Air Force's Discoverer program is bubbling with life. Discoverer is expensive (just under $100 million this year), and it has thus...
But as it is being developed at Space Technology Laboratory, Discoverer is basic to U.S. space doctrine. That doctrine insists on the importance of gaining "capability in space." Space, the theory goes, is a new medium that man must learn to negotiate, just as he once learned to travel on...
Something must have gone wrong. The way to bring a satellite, manned or unmanned, down to the atmosphere is to fire a forward-pointing retrorocket to reduce its speed. If this is done properly, the satellite will curve down into the denser air, where it will be slowed further by...
Fawn-colored pants, white shoes, a pink satin shirt with ELVIS embroidered on the back and a small Presley hat decorated with the hero's picture-all these festooned a fat, balding, cigar-smoking man in a four-room executive suite on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Thomas Andrew...