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...report, a photograph of the sun taken that morning from the roof of the Observatory building, and a forecast of the sun's activity from the federal Environmental Science Services Administration. They then determine the most promising wave-lengths and sections of the sun to observe during the next day. The duty scientist sends these instructions to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., which then transmits the instructions to the satellite via a convenient tracking station...
...operation. After four minutes of observation above White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket parachuted back to earth. "It was recovered so well that to a casual glance, you could not really be sure it had been launched," Parkinson said. The rocket will be repaired and flown again sometime next year...
...major observatories of the next ten years will be connected with the manned space program," Reeves said. An astronaut will sit in front of a television screen equipped with a set of cross-hairs. As he watches the sun on the screen, he will aim the cross-hairs at any areas that seem interesting, and the cross-hairs will electronically aim a telescope located outside the orbiting space station. This ability to follow sunspots, active regions, and other events immediately will be a great improvement over the present generation of automated telescopes which must be programmed a day ahead...
...will probably hold a general meeting within the next week to discuss interim action. They have already planned to canvass, and to hold a high school, college student strike on November 14 in support of the march...
...Recommendations made by the report for the University as a whole included representation of its Faculties on a Committee on Honorary Degrees and on a committee to select Harvard's next President, and revival of the "long dormant" University Council to "concern itself with inter-faculty and University-wide problems...