Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those first satellites, which orbit high above the normal Van Allen radiation belt, says Dr. James J. Coon of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, have detected peculiar cone-shaped clouds of negatively charged particles, presumably electrons, that trail the earth to an unknown distance, circling at the same speed with which the earth turns, so that they always remain on the side away from the sun. No one knows where they come from or why they follow the earth. Instruments on the newer satellites are designed to find out more about them...
Both the Pentagon and the AEC are sure that no nuclear test has been exploded in space since the first detector satellites were tossed into orbit. Their instruments would have detected even a small (20 kilotons) explosion 100 million miles away and distinguished its effects from all kinds of natural radiation. This is believed to be a modest estimate of their capabilities. "How much better we can do now," said an AEC official, "we're not telling...
...been nowhere more significant than in Czechoslovakia, where last week officials fretted publicly over falloffs in food canning, dairy production and even the supply of Pilsner beer. As Communist satellites go, Czechoslovakia is something special. It is the most industrialized and the most intellectualized country in the Russian orbit. By all accounts, it should have been an Iron Curtain showplace-and for a while it was. But after running at an annual growth rate of between 8% and 11% in the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia's gross national product has remained almost static at about $18.5 billion since...
...SPACE PARK. Off the beaten track, with no waiting line, here fairgoers can wander among satellites (everything from TIROS to Telstar), see the Mercury capsule that took Scott Carpenter into orbit, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, as well as models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that will land on the moon...
When Soviet Cosmonette Valentino Tereshlcova, 27, first woman to orbit the earth, married fellow Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayeev, 34, last November, a beaming Khrushchev told the couple, "If you have a baby, the gifts won't fail to come." Last week, the lobby of Moscow's Maternity Institute was filled with proud citizens bearing flowers and remembrances, as "Valya" presented her husband with the world's first cosmonipper