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Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...
...Camus had rocketed into the Parisian literary firmament and the existential orbit of Jean-Paul Sartre. During the German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure...
...Russians have really put 184.3 lbs. on an orbit, they can probably hit the moon with a lighter object. The speed of the Sputnik, 18,000 m.p.h., is not a great deal less than the speed (about 25,000 m.p.h.) needed to move from an orbit to the moon. If a good part of its weight is invested in additional fuel, the remainder should reach the moon without much trouble. The Russians are rumored to be scheduling a shot at the moon for Nov. 7, and they may try to mark its bright face with a visible splash...
Many imaginative military planners have dreamed of satellite fortresses armed with nuclear missiles to shoot at the earth below. All space vehicles must be lightly built to conserve weight. They would therefore be vulnerable, and since they are forced to move on predictable orbits, they should not be too hard to shoot down. One suggested method of dealing with a hostile satellite is to shoot a modest rocket into its orbit, but moving in the opposite direction. The warhead would burst and fill the orbit with millions of small particles. Any one of these, hitting the satellite with twice...
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 27--Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officials said last night that results of their computations of the orbit of Sputnik's rocket were to be transmitted to Russia immediately...