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...fired aloft by the U.S. Government, the Bell Telephone Laboratories' little Telstar satellite (3-ft. diameter) opened a bright new era of long-distance communication. Very-high-frequency radio and TV stations, which are limited to line-of-sight range, suddenly saw their future reach out beyond the horizon, around the curve of the earth...
...trying to join it. Unless the two are close together, their crews will not be able to see each other or communicate by radio; the moon's surface curves so sharply that a few hundred miles of distance will put each of them below the other's horizon. Theoretically they can communicate by relaying messages via the earth, but this cumbersome system is not likely to prove dependable...
...search of clues of foreboding, many Atlantans reached back to reread cards and letters that their friends had sent, and to recall the last words they had spoken before leaving Atlanta. Housewife Mary Louise Humphreys had written: "I will never be quite the same after this trip. My horizon has widened." Frances Beers, a divorcee, had written to her daughter: "This is the most delightful trip I've ever had. If I should die on this trip, I would die happy." Mrs. Ezekiel Candler, wife of a Coca-Cola Co. executive, had told her daughter...
Some quit. They are frequently high school standouts from the Mid west who always thought of colleges in terms of football teams, and who come to Harvard--a new horizon. They find the exciting display of academic purpose too inviting. The man who came to play athletics finds himself interested in the rest of Harvard...
Slower but more economical of fuel, the automatic control system keeps the capsule's attitude steady without pilot attention. It has infrared horizon scanners that watch the boundary between the earth's warm curve and the cold sky and use this information to correct a set of gyroscopes. The gyros in turn control a set of jets, shooting small spurts of peroxide through them whenever necessary. If the capsule has been turned away from the horizontal attitude, the busy little scanners and gyros will turn it back again at 8° per minute. This is fast enough...