Word: meteoric
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Because the Corporation was unwilling to undertake the expense and its resulting implications, the other answer developed. The answer comes in three parts--the much publicized radio astronomy, solar and high altitude research, and meteor research...
...Meteor Project...
Hawkins and Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, outlined the project before the convention of the American Astronomical Association. They explained that they hope to determine in what ways meteors affect humans and to check the accuracy of some of the current contentions concerning them. One Australian scientist maintains that meteors or meteor dust cause the aurora borealis and torrential rains...
...expected that work on this meteor project will have importance in the International Geophysical Year, the coordinated program of scientific studies which begins next year...
...atmosphere should be made of. Pure oxygen might be all right if its pressure were low enough (at atmospheric pressure, it is poisonous), but nitrogen also may be necessary for human health. In any case, the pressure in the spaceship should not be too low. If a meteor punctured the skin, a good thick atmosphere of oxygen diluted with nitrogen or helium would not be lost as quickly as a thin one of oxygen alone...