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...paddle-wheeled planetoid Pioneer V, launched March 11, is on its way around the sun in an orbit between Earth and Venus, sending back information on radiation, temperature, micrometeorites and magnetic fields on its small, five-watt transmitter...
...candy-striped medicine ball called Transit IB, forerunner of a series of U.S. Navy satellites that by 1962 will provide more exact navigational guidance for ships and planes (see SCIENCE). And even the long-jinxed Air Force Discoverer program got off a perfect launching of Discoverer XI into polar orbit, though airmen once again failed to recover the data capsule that the satellite ejected...
...axis pointed in a single direction as it circles the earth. This means that its cameras will point away from the earth much of the time. The ground operator, before he sends his signal, must calculate when the cameras will be looking at something interesting. The satellite's orbit shifts slowly around the earth, allowing all parts that do not lie farther north than France to be photographed. On the second day of its orbiting, it sent to Fort Monmouth cloud-pattern pictures of the Mediterranean region...
...Tiros I spun skyward last week, a stocky, dark-thatched man sat in NASA's Washington headquarters, scanning electronic returns and helping nurse the new space baby into orbit. He was Abe Silverstein, NASA's director of space flight programs, and a living answer to the notion that able scientists do not enjoy working for government. Silverstein has been employed by the U.S. government for 30 of his 51 years, and he still likes his job well enough to stay at it for ten or eleven hours a day and for six days a week during peak periods...
...Mingling. Beamed strictly at Baltimore, the morning Sun (circ. 198,204) and the evening Sun (circ. 216,261) nonetheless orbit the world: the Szwpapers have one of the largest newspaper bureaus in Washington (ten men), keep staffers in London, Moscow, Rome and Bonn, and often, rather than rely on wire-service copy, send their own men after the big national news, wherever it breaks. The only time the morning Sun ever bought a syndicated political columnist, it killed his copy and thereby kept it out of town for years; the columnist was Drew Pearson, whom the Sun had fired...