Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After more than 12 years in earth orbit, Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, will reenter the atmosphere and burn sometime next Spring, a Harvard astronomer has estimated...
...early start of a program to send manned spacecraft past nearby planets. He has theorized that life may have once begun to develop on the moon and has suggested that it might be worthwhile to seize one of the moonlets of Mars and fly it back into earth orbit...
Singer concedes that Phobos and Deimos could be explored by visiting spacecraft. But if little Deimos, only five miles in diameter, could be brought into earth orbit, it could be investigated more thoroughly. The technology of the interplanetary move, which would be man's first rearrangement of the solar system, would be simple, Singer says. An efficient, low-thrust nuclear engine capable of firing for long periods of time could be set up on Deimos to push the moonlet out of its orbit and start it curving toward the earth. The cost would be high, says Singer...
...course, it is difficult to keep track of all the intellectuals with strange-sounding names and unorthodox notions who orbit the campuses, think tanks and Government. While renowned in those circles, Henry Alfred Kissinger is not exactly, as Spiro Agnew might have said, a household name. Though he has never been a diplomat, he knows more foreign leaders than many State Department careerists. A superficial reading of some of his works makes him seem like a hawk, but many intellectual doves regard him as Richard Nixon's most astute appointment. Bonn, London and Paris may disagree on a score...
...drama of the crew exchange, it was the docking that mattered most. Soviet booster rockets are dwarfed by America's Saturn 5 and cannot thrust a manned spacecraft to the moon in one leap. Instead, the Russians must assemble their lunar vehicles in earth orbit. Until last week, although they had twice docked unmanned spacecraft, no cosmonaut had piloted the pieces together...