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First news of the hit came to the free world from the radio telescope at Britain's Jodrell Bank. As the moon rose, the great 250-ft. dish swung toward it. The sharp beep-beep of Lunik II throbbed in the control room. The signals were coming from the exact point in the starry sky that the Russians had predicted by telegram to Jodrell Bank...
...preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon on Jan. 3, 1959 and soared on into a solar orbit...
...Moscow time, the Lunik emitted a cloud of sodium vapor. It was too low in the east for good observation in Western Europe, but several Soviet observatories reported seeing it. The cloud gave an accurate check of the course, and presently the Russians announced that Lunik II would actually hit the moon at 12:05 a.m. on Monday Moscow time (5:05 p.m. E.D.T. Sunday...
...visited the house of a very famous Russian poet -but I forgot his name." "Pushkin?" offered the interpreter. "Yes, Pushkin," recalled Ike. The President was guided to the exhibit's centerpiece, a display of the shiny models of the three Russian Sputniks and a replica of the Lunik nose cone. "Just think of the millions and millions of miles," he muttered politely. At the model display of the Soviet nuclear icebreaker Lenin, Kozlov shouted in Ike's ear: "That's what we use atomic power for." The President, author of his own wide-ranging atoms-for-peace...
...planet, a gold-plated fiberglass cone weighing 13.4 Ibs., did not compare in weight with the 796-lb. Lunik that the Russians put into solar orbit early in January, but its instruments apparently worked much better. The signal from its tiny transmitter was so strong that the 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England could have followed it 4,000,000 miles into space if its batteries had lasted. The Russians reported that they lost their Lunik's signal (which no one else had followed) at 370,000 miles...