Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans to flight-test cheaper, deep-space electrical propulsion systems in 1962, and hopes to make a manned moon orbit in 1963. But the problems of a round trip across 480,000 miles of space are fantastic. The greatest hazard is cosmic radiation. The U.S.'s interplanetary probe, Pioneer V, reported a sinister, unpredictable enemy lurking in space: wide-ranging "storms" of deadly proton particles, spewed forth by the sun, of such energy (up to 20 billion electron volts per particle) that they will easily penetrate the thickest protective shield...
...some areas the picture is encouraging. Space communications are more than adequate: the U.S. maintained direct, constant contact with Pioneer V until the 70,000 m.p.h. probe was 22.5 million miles from earth. And both Russia and the U.S. have the technological capability to guide a rocket on an interplanetary mission. Says Martin's Demoret: "Guidance is an engineering problem, and we don't think it's a great one at all. We already can do the job. Whether we go to the moon, to Mars or to Venus, we'll be able to guide space...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. A friend's excellent biography of the late Albert Lasker, the Madison Avenue pioneer who invented "That School Girl Complexion," dominated U.S. advertising, and cut the pattern for its grey-flannel suit...
College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., the Polaris pioneer, faces the undergraduates and Moderator Ruth Hagy...
...Orbited Echo I, a thin-skinned, gas-filled balloon 100 ft. in diameter, pioneer of a future globe-girdling network of balloon satellites to be used to bounce com munications signals from one continent to another (see SCIENCE...