Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN GLENN, 54, freshman Senator from Ohio, who will be one of the two keynote speakers. Glenn, the first man to orbit the earth, is obviously accustomed to performing with the world's eyes and ears focused on him. It took him three tries before he landed his Senate seat in 1974. Since then, he has been a hard-working centrist. In his debut as a national political figure, Glenn will sound an inspirational note. With his familiar face, his easy, Eisenhower-like smile and technocrat's precise mind, Glenn is a major contender for second place...
...firms have been seeking ways to obtain cheap energy by harnessing the power of the sun or wind. The Boeing Company of Seattle is working on a project called Powersat, which involves assembling a nine-mile-long solar-heat collector in space; once assembled, it can ride along in orbit beaming the sun's power back to earth. On a more mundane level, Boeing has a contract with the Energy Research and Development Administration to develop a 10 million-watt power plant using heliostats-mirror-like reflectors that would catch the sun's rays and reflect them...
...suggested that had a Martian version of Mariner 4 passed within 6,000 miles of earth and taken 22 comparable photographs, it would have uncovered no sign of life (TIME, Jan. 7, 1966). In fact, he noted, in studying hundreds of photographs taken by Nimbus and Tiros weather satellites orbiting only several hundred miles above the earth, he had failed to detect anything that could reasonably be interpreted as evidence of life below. The continuing confidence of Sagan and other life-on-Mars enthusiasts was bolstered in 1971 and '72 when Mariner 9, from an orbit that brought...
...area satisfy scientists that it is safe for landing, controllers will feed the trajectory of the automated descent into the lander's computers and give the craft a final checkout. Then, on instructions from the scientists, the lander, encased in a protective aeroshell, will be detached from the orbiter. About ten minutes later, two rocket engines in the aeroshell will begin firing, slowing the lander to bring it out of orbit and into a descent path. Some 150 miles from the surface, traveling at more than 10,000 m.p.h., Viking will encounter the outer fringes of the Martian atmosphere...
...that the Government has lost contact with the people. Says Jack Spalding, editor of the Atlanta Journal: "It's not that the people are especially mad at Washington. Rather it is that Washington is so out of touch with the country. Those elitists up there are in orbit by themselves." Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey feels that Washington fails to understand that a new self-confidence has developed in many communities, where people reckon that they can manage their own affairs...