Word: distant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tense silence filled Room 306-B at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (HSCFA) early yesterday morning as about 50 astronomers, students and friends listened to the final seconds of countdown before the launch of a satellite designed to probe the most distant recesses of the universe...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman∙American Caesar, William Manchester∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...primarily by a Center for Astrophysics (CFA) team headed by professor of astronomy Riccardo Giacconi, the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-B (HEAO-B), to be renamed the "Einstein Observatory" upon reaching orbit is designed to for the first time take high resolution X-Ray photographs of a variety of distant cosmic objects, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, hot gas clouds and clusters of galaxies...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...