Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace on earth and good will towards men is worth working for, and even the most hard boiled probably give it a thought or two over the holidays. That the Christmas spirit is so ephemeral should be no indictment against Christmas, but merely against the rest of the year...
...first Discoverer, missilemen suspect, will do no more than report the cloud cover of the earth. Later versions may eventually take pictures with real cameras. If the satellite is recovered intact, the films can be developed on earth. Another possible trick would be to have the pictures developed automatically on board the-satellite and sent to earth by facsimile radio. A good telescopic camera orbiting several hundred miles up might photograph objects as small as Russian military bases...
Rotation Control. If the satellite can be made to rotate once in 90 minutes (the period of its revolution), its camera can point at the earth all the time-just as the moon rotates so as to keep one side always facing the earth. A promising way to control the satellite's rotation is to give it apparatus that observes the earth's horizon and keeps the satellite in steady alignment with it by squirting out stabilizing jets...
...bring the satellite back to earth at a desired place and time, designers expect to employ a retrorocket, which will be fired to reduce its speed at the chosen moment and spot. A parachute will slow it further, and a radio will shout an S O S. Finding the satellite with its undeveloped films or its beat-up "primate" should not be much harder than finding a missile's nose cone...
...Boris Pasternak has fulfilled his personal definition of the highest purpose of art: to create "an image of man [that] is greater than man," thus leading him to nobler realms of being. He also reminds men that Christ and the Christ-in-everyman is the last best hope of earth. In a perplexed, ravaged and despairing age, Pasternak's undiminished confidence in the future of humanity is perhaps his greatest gift...