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The ultraviolet spectrometer, about the size and shape of a window box, will provide new information about the solar flares that erupt now and then from the sun's atmosphere, appearing as tongues of luminous gas flicking outward around sun spots. During a flare, clouds of ionized hydrogen gas--protons...
Flicking the ash off his filter-tipped American cigarette, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, 29, pondered the questions of West German newsmen on a visit to the free side of the Iron Curtain with his wife Galya, who has been translating Salinger into Russian. Spiffily decked out in the latest Russo...
Watson demonstrates his effects for prospective clients by flicking switches and rheostats on a large console that controls 100 lighting fixtures, 179 switches and four miles of wire packed into his small Japanese garden. The lights themselves are mostly small and invisible, mounted on trees or behind bushes. "The important...
(4 of 10) at Greenbelt, Md., ten miles northeast of Washington, controls all unmanned civilian space vehicles intended to stay this side of the moon. Like all NASA centers, Goddard is a raw-looking and fast-growing place, spreading like a frontier clearing into a forest that formerly belonged to...
Young engineers set a strange contraption in the sunlight and watch it click and squirm and eerily point toward the sun. Colleagues gather to admire, their talk tangled with figures and newborn jargon. Nothing is simple at Goddard. In the corner of a control room is a small telephone switchboard...