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Thaler considers the ONR an ideal place for an idea man. "There are so many things going on there," he explains, "and you can find out about them just by walking down the corridor. It stimulates your thinking along oddball lines and keeps you from getting in a rut." The best example of that occurred two years ago, when he read a couple of published papers-one on the backscatter phenomenon, the other on ionized gases-and saw a method of connecting the two subjects that no one had seen before. The result was Project Tepee...
...ONR figures that the space plane can use an existing rocket motor to push it with an acceleration that the pilot can stand. Best take-off procedure will probably be to launch it into the air from the belly of a high-flying bomber. According to ONR's plans, the pilot will retain complete control of his craft, steering it with control surfaces while still in the atmosphere. When the air thins out too much" to be used for steering, he will control the plane's altitude by firing small rockets set at an angle to the fuselage...
...especially when the air thickens at 50,000 ft. The leading edges of the stubby wings will glow cherry red, and part of their substance will be washed away, even if they are made of heat-resistant metal. But the heating will continue for only a short time, and ONR believes that wings can be made to survive...
...first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the choice. As chief civilian scientist in the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Waterman was largely responsible for the extraordinary respect which non-Government scientists feel toward ONR. Its ultimate objective was to develop weapons, but it did not limit itself to gadgeteering. Realizing that really new weapons can grow only from new theory, it encouraged all sorts of basic research, much of it far removed from direct weapons work...
...Waterman got his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1916, taught physics off & on at Yale until 1942, joined the Office of Scientific Research and Development (the overall agency headed by Vannevar Bush that guided wartime research). In 1946 he shifted to ONR. As director of the National Science Foundation, he will work for a board of 24 prominent scientists headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. Last fall Congress appropriated $225,000 to get the foundation going, may give it up to $15 million this year to encourage basic research throughout...