Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hynek revealed that information received from both the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and a Smithsonian staff astronomer in California led to the conclusion that the satellite's orbital plane is apparently turning faster than expected as a result of this unknown force...
...Washington's Naval Research Laboratory, control center of the U.S.'s satellite Project Vanguard, men worked through the night in the white glare of searchlights to adjust rooftop radio aerials to pick up the pulse beat. Coolheaded scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass, got on the long distance phone to alert amateur astronomers across the U.S., pulled the switch on Operation Moonwatch, the skygazing network the U.S. had set up to track its own unborn earth satellite. Other Smithsonian scientists sorted and fed into an electronic brain the fragmentary reports from moonwatchers, observatories and radio...
...years in the House of Representatives, New York's Republican Representative W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, 53, did his best work on committee assignment-postwar military policy, naval affairs, armed services. In 1947 he was appointed to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, served as chairman during the crucial years 1953-54, during which U.S. H-bombs were under test in the Marshall Islands, helped rewrite the basic U.S. atomic energy law to get the U.S. into the atoms-for-peace business. Last year he also put in a stint as a member of the U.S. delegation that helped...
...Naval Research Laboratory in Washington reported that the signals faded out about 4 p.m. yesterday but were again picked up strongly at 10 p.m. There was no variation in the type or frequency of the signal...
...photographs. Since there is no way to chase the atmosphere away from an astronomical observatory, the next best thing would be to lift the observatory above the troublesome part of the atmosphere. This trick was done for the first time last week by Project Stratoscope of the Office of Naval Research...