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...back again every 103 minutes, the 1,965-lb. spacecraft has been taking as many as 752 pictures of the earth every day; each shot covers a 115-by-115-mile square. Unlike U.S. and Soviet spy satellites, which are on the lookout for military sites, the mission of NASA's first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1) is purely scientific. A direct spin-off of the space agency's active new interest in its home planet, ERTS is now returning dramatically revealing views of the earth...
...satellite's twin sensing systems have already proved their worth. Last month, ERTS suffered a mysterious power surge that temporarily affected the stabilizing jets and caused wild gyrations. To protect the satellite's three RCA vidicon cameras (which make up one of the sensing systems), controllers at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center shut the cameras down until they could locate the problem and send new instructions to the satellite's computer. Meanwhile, the other system, a multispectral scanner built by Hughes Aircraft Co., was fully able to take up the observational slack...
TEXAS IS NO longer a windswept table-top populated by cowboys and a few thousand chicanos. It now boasts two of the nation's fastest growing urban areas, the NASA Manned Space Craft Center, the Astrodome, and, of course, all those oil companies. It has a burgeoning population of over 11 million, 13 per cent black, and 15 per cent chicano. And, with 26 electoral votes. Texas ranks fourth among the season's top political prizes...
...former Princeton and Berkeley professor, Field sits on several physics and astronomy survey committees and is a member of the astronomy missions board for NASA...
Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...