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...difference. Rarely were history's explorers and discoverers so clearly marked in advance as men of destiny. Within approximately two years, one of the seven would be chosen -perhaps by lot-to test for the first time whether a human can be shot beyond the atmosphere to orbit the earth from 125 miles up at 18,000 m.p.h. and return to tell about...
...Question. Then, as quickly as it went away, the peculiar daylight of space will return. Again there will be no twilight, just darkness-then light in the space cabin. And then, just before he completes the first orbit, a query will come from earth: Is the physical condition of the vehicle and his physiological condition adequate for another or possibly two more orbits? He will have to search the ship, his body, and his soul for the correct answer to this question. No doubt he will have every indication that his ship is adequate. He will know little about...
...Cape Canaveral, Fla., last night an attempt to put two Vanguard satellites into orbit on a single launching vehicle failed when the second stage failed to ignite...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--America's second Discoverer satellite roared southward into polar orbit yesterday, setting the stage for a sigantic game of aerial catch in which planes may try to snatch its parachuting nose cone from...
Vanguard has proved so regular, and its orbit can be charted so exactly, that it has been used to plot, with an accuracy never before possible, the exact position of oceanic islands. In the past, islands were mapped by celestial observations whose accuracy depended on the establishment of an exact vertical by gravity. Because of uncertainties about the earth's shape, this can be done precisely only at the poles. So the Army Map Service sets up mobile tracking stations on various islands. When Vanguard I passes overhead, the trackers determine its bearing at an exact time, in microseconds...