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This rough aiming is not good enough, either to hit the moon or to orbit around it. So toward the end of the journey a scanning device will pick up the moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report...
...real objective, of course, is manned space flight, and Putt sketched three Air Force projects headed in that direction. The first is the rocket plane X-15 (TIME, March 3), which Putt thinks can be beefed up enough to carry an orbiting human and return him to earth alive. The second is DYNA-SOAR (from "dynamic soaring"), a vehicle that will use what Putt calls "boost-glide flight." It will be boosted up like a rocket, but will have wings and controls. The pilot can permit it to orbit freely around the earth for a while, or he can bring...
...this scientist-starved country of ours, one wonders what salary Wernher von Braun draws for his missile-expert job to shoot Alpha 1958 into orbit. Would he make more if he grew sideburns and played the guitar ? HANS W. SCHWARK Milwaukee...
...Years of Growth. Through the next 17 years T.R. groped toward power along what one friend called "an eccentric orbit." Shrugging off the wealthy, wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose...
...magnetic tape. They poured reports from the satellite's instruments into IGY headquarters in Washington and other official centers, in an ever-increasing flood. Analysis of the reports is a long, painstaking business, but already some of the data have been made public. The Explorer's orbit has been pinpointed fairly accurately (see diagram). According to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., it crosses the equator at an angle of 33.5°, and takes 115 minutes to complete a circuit of the earth. The Smithsonian scientists do not think this figure will change appreciably for about seven...