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...three judges for this year's Dana Reed Prize, gives for undergraduates writing at Harvard, are Harrison R. Salisbury, of the New York Times; John J. Thorndike Jr., editor of Horizon; and John Updike '54, a former winner of prize and author of Rabbit...
This time it will be well above the horizon. However, the distance of some 950 miles from Honolulu to the bomb, plus the atmosphere's filtering effects along the last part of the light's path, is expected to protect Hawaiians from eye damage...
...then, with your feet together and your eyes on the horizon, you the ground. Upon impact, you can lapse and roll...
Soaring over the Indian Ocean, Glenn experienced his first nightfall in space. It was spectacular. "As the sun goes down, it's very white, brilliant light, and as it goes below the horizon you get a very bright orange color. Down close to the surface it pales out into sort of a blue, a darker blue, and then off into black." The stars were bright diamonds on black velvet. "If you've been out in the desert on a very clear, brilliant night when there's no moon and the stars just seem to jump out at you, that...
Weather does not always favor the celestial navigator. Far up where modern jets fly (up to 40,000 ft.), heavy clouds are rare, and the brighter celestial bodies generally shine through thin, high cirrus clouds. But at twilight, when the sun drops just under the horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several...