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...that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with the incomprehensible. But to know that he is traveling at 17,500 m.p.h. is a measure that means something to an earthling who must watch the "60 m.p.h." speed-limit signs...
...least seven times in the past eleven months, mysterious Russian unmanned space shots launched from the Soviet cosmodrome at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, have set off flurries of speculation among U.S. space and military experts. All seven seem to have been attempts to return payloads to earth in one orbit or less, and all have had un usually inclined elliptical orbits with abnormally low perigees...
...Russians are not talking. The first in the series, fired without announcement from Tyuratam on Sept. 17, 1966, was observed by U.S. space trackers to explode into more than 80 pieces before it could complete its first orbit...
Russian race to the moon, man's most useful achievements in space have come as the result of an unsung project started in 1964: the U.S. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series. Last week the fourth OGO satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 28, was buzzing along in polar orbit without a hitch...
...project has suffered its share of setbacks. After 46 days in orbit, for example, OGO-3 developed a control-mechanism failure and has since operated at only 75% efficiency. But overall, the OGOs have been a resounding success. By week's end, OGO-4 was performing without a sign of trouble. At TRW's Redondo Beach, Calif., plant, scientists and engineers are testing OGO-5 and building OGO-6, both of which will be sent up next year. The entire program will cost about $150 million-mere pennies, considering the dragonflies' scientific achievements...