Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...Glenn explained at a conference, his knowledge from the three-orbit flight of Friendship 7 had long since been assimilated into the space program. Also, by the time the U.S. is ready to launch the Apollo man-on-the-moon shot, Glenn, now 42, will be "near 50-not very old for most occupations, but on the edge of doubt for astronauts." Glenn therefore decided to run for the Senate because "this is an area in which I have had a lifelong interest. I feel that it provides the best opportunity to make use of the experience I have gained...
Pressure from the radical left has forced Ceylon closer to the Red trade orbit, caused economic chaos. The severe textile shortage is largely the result of a policy that limits most imports of cloth to Russia, Poland and Red China. Other restrictions have boosted the price of potatoes, dhal (a tropical pea) and cabbage...
...weather were made available to all the world last week-and at bargain rates. With about $32,000 worth of standard components, any country that is interested can put together a station capable of querying Tiros VIII, the newest weather watcher that the U.S. has fired into orbit...
...will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical Dr. Hall: "When I came to the Department of Defense last summer, I didn't think much could be done with a man in space. My attitude is still 'I gotta be shown...