Word: orbit
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...extra hazard), but still less than steeplejacks. Since the standard premium varies with age, Senior Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, gets the highest bill. The lowest? To Major L. Gordon Cooper, 36, pounding along the beach at Cape Canaveral as a warm-up for his scheduled 22-orbit mission this week, which could be the biggest TV spectacular in many a moon (see SCIENCE...
...situation is symbolized by the astronauts. In orbit, they are living the greatest adventure in history, and much of the outcome depends on the soundness of their minds and the stoutness of their hearts, whose beat is heard over loudspeakers around the world. Yet even more depends on thousands of people on the ground who control the spacemen's ascent, their course, their return or their death...
...today's locust fighters have a new and glamorous aid. U.S. Tiros weather satellites have proved to be reliable anti-locust spies. To cryptic reparts from wandering Bedouins, Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...
This solar observatory, called S-17, will be the second such platform in space. S-16, which went up about a year ago, is the first of a series that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to orbit during the current solar activity cycle of 11 years. The Harvard instrument which S-17 will carry was made at the College Observatory by a group directed by Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy. William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson professor of Applied Astronomy, is assistant director of the project, and the instrument was built and tested by Edmond Reeves, William Parkinson...
...Moon Orbit. Hence the enormous prestige Nasser won in 1956, when he survived the massed assault of Britain, France and Israel in the Suez War. Arabs ignored the fact that the Egyptians were beaten in the field and that only intervention by the U.S. and the Soviet Union saved Nasser from collapse. What mattered was that Nasser had engaged the imperialists and Israel in battle, and managed to survive. When Egypt later proved that it had the technical skill to operate the Suez Canal efficiently on its own. Arab nationalists were as proud as if Nasser had personally orbited...