Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voices were fresh, but the dialogues themselves were as old as men. All, that is, except one. It came from a 94.8-lb. paddle-wheeled ball that last week rose from the surface of the earth and vaulted through space. The destiny of Pioneer V lay in the unknown void-as far as 186 million miles away-in a 527 million-mile sun-circling orbit between the earth and Venus (see SCIENCE). And of all the machinery thrown into the heavens since the space age began only 29 months ago, Pioneer V alone has a voice that will thunder through...
...world has a new scout in the space between the planets. Its paddle-shaped solar batteries wheeling in the glaring sunlight of airless space, Pioneer V, a 94.8-lb. sphere only 26 in. in diameter, was the first interplanetary traveler with a far-ranging and long-lasting voice. If all goes well, scientists will be hearing from Pioneer V steadily for the next five months, then sporadically for years to come, as it swings back within range...
Across the Atlantic in Britain, a young (34) American electronics expert, Bill Young, sat in a gadget-packed trailer parked near Jodrell Bank's giant radio telescope. The 250-ft. dish picked up the "woo-woo" signal from Pioneer V's 5-watt transmitter on schedule and swung slowly to track it through the sky. Bill Young listened. Twenty-seven minutes after the launch, when the rocket was about 5,000 miles above the earth's surface, he pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from there...
Signal for Woo-Woo. Five minutes later, Bill Young sent another message, and Pioneer V obediently switched off its transmitter. Every hour on the half-hour Young turned the transmitter on and listened to its woo-woo sound for 15 minutes. Then he turned it off to permit the 4,800 silicon cells in Pioneer V's four "paddles" to recharge its storage batteries with solar-generated electricity. This routine was repeated successfully until the earth's rotation put Pioneer V below Jodrell Bank's horizon...
...classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce veterans to settle in the labor-short central Asian "virgin lands," the state is offering free land, low-interest loans, and a bonus of 600 rubles ($60). Last week the first ex-servicemen arrived in the harsh pioneer land of Kazakhstan, where the Communist leader was fired recently after a quarter of the wheat crop went unharvested for lack of workers...