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But if diagnostic craft can be sent aloft for a test, they can also be orbited to watch for tests. At present, they are the only practical policemen U.S. science can build. When a nuclear bomb explodes in the vacuum of space, it does not give the great flash of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Policing the Big Beat | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Last week Webb announced that Holmes's job will be taken over by Dr. George E. Mueller, 45, vice president for research and development of Los Angeles' Space Technology Laboratories, one of the U.S.'s biggest space-age contractors. Holmes's successor, says a NASA official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Man for the Moon | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Back in 1951, when the U.S. began to worry about Russian-atom armed bombers, somebody had a notion that the invaders might steer by the crisscrossing waves of U.S. commercial broadcasting stations. Probably Russian navigators were never so helpless as that, but an official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Sign-off for conelrad | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Dangerous Cracks. Republic Steel ensures that its seamless pipes are right before they leave the mill by using an electromagnetic testing machine that watches for breaks as the pipes rush by at assembly-line speed and determines whether they can be repaired. With such nonmagnetic metals as zirconium and tungsten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Testing Without Breaking | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

"We should have started shouting back in 1947," says Radio Astronomer Charles Seeger. "But we didn't know then what we had hold of." Anxious to make up for this omission, the University of California scientist was in Washington last week shouting as loud as an amateur lobbyist can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Astronomy: Spare That Channel | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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