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...16th orbit. With color film twice as fast as anything available commercially, he shot a sharply defined green band 16 miles thick, distinct from the blue-white earth some 65 miles below. "It must have been a tremendous experience, seeing this wedding ring sticking up all around," says Physicist Edward P. Ney, who prepared the experiment along with two University of Minnesota colleagues...
Resigned & Hopeful. Fortifying senatorial wariness toward the test ban treaty were doubts voiced by U.S. scientists. "Very serious questions have to be resolved about this treaty," said Physicist Edward Teller. "I'm inclined to believe that it has extremely great danger." Some scientists hold that the Russians could cheat the ban by setting off small explosions in the atmosphere below the "limit of observability." Nuclear tests in outer space are also possible, though the U.S. is well along in the development of methods for detecting nuclear explosions in space (see SCIENCE...
...vice president for research and development of Los Angeles' Space Technology Laboratories, one of the U.S.'s biggest space-age contractors. Holmes's successor, says a NASA official, is "very quiet, very polite and no table thumper like Holmes." Both an electrical engineer and a physicist by training, Mueller (pronounced Miller) has done notable and imaginative work in electromagnetic theory, missile guidance systems, deep space communications, microwave research, space-systems engineering and space payload design. He helped develop the U.S.'s first ICBM and the instrumentation for the nation's earliest space probes...
Some U.S. scientists, too, have voiced misgivings about what one of them called the "frantic, costly and disastrous pace" of NASA's push toward the moon. Physicist Lloyd V. Berkner, former chairman of the National Academy of Sciences space science board, has warned against reducing the space race "to the spectacle of an athletic contest." Many scientists would prefer to see the U.S. explore space primarily with unmanned probes, incomparably less costly than manned space shots...
Defeated Machinery. On trial in London, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Giuseppe Martelli tried to explain away his possession of hollow-heeled shoes suitable for concealing microfilm, cigarette packs containing thin, inflammable message pads, sheets of rendezvous instructions, a high-powered camera, and a superstrength radio receiver. He had accepted all these gadgets from the Russians, he said, only to string them along and then denounce them at the right time to the British authorities. Asked the judge: "You felt that you could defeat the whole machinery of Soviet intelligence...