Word: instruments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Revie stressed that passenger flights would be carried out only under maximum safety conditions. This does not exclude normal night flying, however, for both planes and pilots will be "equipped to handle instrument flying...
...addition the President said he is "setting steps in motion to explore" ways of disposing of U.S. farm surpluses overseas so as to foster peace. "Food," he said, "can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace." He would call conferences to work out the details...
Primates First. No man will be risked in this dangerous maneuver until a long series of tests has been completed successfully. First a series of instrument-carrying capsules will be fired to gradually increasing heights. Then primates (the NASA no longer calls them apes or monkeys) will get lengthening rides. On about the seventh shot, a man will be sent up 70 miles, landing 200 miles away. Next a manned capsule will orbit the earth once. Final step: to put a man in orbit for 24 hours and bring him back alive...
Radioactive Moon. Russia's Lunik carried an instrument to measure the radioactivity of the moon's surface. Neither Kuiper nor Gold believes that it could have worked at the distance (4,660 miles) at which the Lunik swept past the moon, but they would be grateful for any information that the Russians choose to release. Dr. Kuiper believes that the moon's surface is blazing with radioactivity. On the earth, he says, the thick layer of air is the shielding equivalent of 3 ft. of lead or 33 ft. of water, protects the surface from many kinds...
...program is roughly similar. A "soft" instrument landing on the moon may be accomplished in 1960. Putting a man in space will take longer. A protected capsule to bring him back alive is already under development. One of the preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...