Word: earthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall context of the cold war, the U.S. could view the exchange of visits with confidence-confidence in its own economic-technological strength, confidence that the advantages in East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system...
...difference between the two marked the steady acceleration of the U.S. space program. Explorer I, still riding in space, is a 30.8-lb. cylinder that reaches an apogee of 1,600 miles. Explorer VI, weighing 142 Ibs., is more complex and reaches higher than anything ever orbited around the earth-26,400 miles, with ellipses to a low perigee of 157 miles. Its aluminum skin encases scores of miniaturized scientific instruments that are already reporting facts on space (see SCIENCE) never before revealed...
...used to drive future U.S. satellite instruments and to operate orbiting TV scanners that will transmit unclouded images of the solar system. Last week, with a wink at Christopher Columbus and George Eastman, Explorer VI televised back a crude image of smudges and blurs-the first picture of the earth ever shot from so far out in space...
What is the earth? "The earth is a blob of matter hurtling through infinite space." The old gentleman was visibly pleased by the conciseness of the answer...
What is the earth? "The earth is a beautiful globe, blessed with natural resources and lovely landscapes, warmed by the sun and kissed by the moon." The old gentleman shuddered a little at such blatant subjectivity...