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Donald A. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory and organizer of the satellite search, said that early last week observers at Boyden noticed an object which appeared to be the satellite. At that time the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked Harvard to determine whether the object was Syncom...
After the initial sighting, Harvard astronomers at Boyden were in hour by hour communication with NASA until confirmation was finally made Saturday. Confirmation would have come earlier, Menzel said, if it had not been for adverse weather conditions last week...
...next task is to determine the definitive orbit for Syncom I," Menzel said. "The satellite may be repairable, but that will be a job for NASA technicians...
...Haar, professor of Law; Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; V.O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; Arthur A. Maas, professor of Government; Ernest R. May, associate professor of History; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; and Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, joined in the endorsement of Ted Kennedy by James McGregor Burns...
...opposite view was held, and Venus was thought to be a desert planet scoured by constant sand-storms. In 1950, Donald A. Menzel and Fred L. Whipple suggested that the entire planet was covered with ocean. Some time later, the British astronomer Fred Hoyle postulated instead an ocean...