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Imaginative scientists have proposed that powerful laser beams (which actually exert pressure on a surface) be used to push back into correct orbit satellites that have begun to fall toward earth. Others have gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...
...Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo on a Russian moon rocket that gets irretrievably rutted in orbit around the earth. There she joins the other pieces of spent, sophisticated junk beeping and squealing their Muzak of the spheres...
...impressive demonstration of genuine pro-French feeling. Besides, President Nicolae Ceausescu 50, is an ardent admirer of De Gaulle and his independent ways, and has used De Gaulle's single-minded nationalism as a model and inspiration for his own efforts to ease out of the Soviet orbit...
...necessary before the rocket could be trusted to carry astronauts into space. Now, after a careful review of the troubles that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about $280 million and avoid further delays in its program to place U.S. astronauts on the moon...