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...whirled in orbit around the moon, the instrument-crammed Soviet spaceship Luna 10 was busily recording and reporting man's first continuous supply of data about the lunar environment. Though the Russians did not tell all they learned, the information they did release confirmed that their distant capsule was carrying out its fact-finding mission with singular success...
...magnetic tail once a month. The passage, which takes two or three days, occurs around the time when the moon is full, on the opposite side of the earth from the sun. Because the moon was full on April 5, only two days after Luna 10 went into lunar orbit, the Russians presumably detected an almost immediate rise in the number of electrons, then a sharp drop-off a few days later as the moon passed out of the tail...
Still another effort, which is perhaps the most delicate and sophisticated relativity check yet designed, will even involve NASA's growing capability in space. Within the next few years, if all goes well, a satellite will be launched into a 500-mile-high polar orbit. It will carry a virtually perfect gyroscope-one that is almost completely free from friction, gravitational pull or magnetic fields. If the general relativity theory is correct, according to calculations made by Stanford University Physicist Leonard Schiff, the gyroscope should precess-change the direction of its axis of rotation-about 1/500th of a degree...
...free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium at a temperature of-452°F. to make the niobium coating superconducting. In this supercooled state it will shield the gyroscope from the effects of any external magnetic field. Once in orbit, the free-spinning gyroscope will also be weightless and almost completely free of gravitational pull...
...Administration's sword's-point showdown over the dismantling of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. "There were those who disagreed with the President," says Peck. But they obviously don't matter very much. On the New Frontier, once unreliable U.S. rockets sail obediently into orbit. In the movie's oversimple view of Washington under Kennedy, intramural shoptalk and crackling press conferences disappear, for the city is "transformed into a cultural capital." In fact, this is neither Kennedy's Washington nor Washington's Kennedy. It is a legend for export, smoothly put together, fiercely partisan...