Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the inefficiency of the present organization for missiles development, failures of the Vanguard type and dangerous laggings in ICBM development can only be expected. The present hydra-headed system produces innumerable delays in production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the...
Aside from broadening their experience in particular scientific fields, the experiment gave the boys a "cooperative feeling for scientific work," Norris said. He suggested that such Centers be established wherever educational and industrial facilities are available. Norris concluded that such a pre-college program would help answer the need for...
Space-minded strategists, some of them official, have plugged for satellites as orbiting dugouts from which operations might be conducted against the earth below. A relatively minor experiment that the Air Force told about last week showed that satellite-based aggression may not be so easy as it sounds. On...
Sitting Satellite. The scientists of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center who conducted the experiment say that their purpose was to study the high atmosphere by injecting artificial meteors into it and observing their behavior and the light generated by them. This explanation has its elements of truth, but the...
The insects easiest to study in this way are mosquitoes, bees, flies, etc. Dr. Hocking puts one of them on the mill and makes it fly until it is exhausted, which means that its nectar tank is empty. Then he refuels it (a tricky business) with a measured amount of...