Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 3--A roaring Juno II rocket was launched early this morning carrying Pioneer IV, a potential sun planet. The goal of Army scientists was to hurl a 13-pound gold-plated satellite past the moon, 221,000 miles away, in 34 hours and ultimately into a solar orbit a half million miles from earth...
...human species seems headed for space, where the practical pickings are few and exceedingly hard to pick. Much more profitable, many scientists believe, would be a vigorous attack on the earth's own oceans. They cover more than two-thirds of the planet's surface, contain the bulk of its life. But most of their dark bottoms and middle depths are not so well known as the visible surface of the moon...
This week a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences and headed by Geochemist Harrison Brown of Caltech sketched out a ten-year program for unlocking the ocean treasure house, which may contain as much of value to man as the earth's land. As the planet becomes more thickly populated, whole nations may get the bulk of their food from the fertile sea, as well as minerals and fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well...
...life-his days on a newspaper in Hannibal, Mo. (he worked for board and clothes), his career as printer in St. Louis, silver miner in Nevada, correspondent in the Sandwich Islands, river boat pilot on the Mississippi. Clemens fondly speaks of one "charmingly leisurely boat, the slowest on the planet. Upstream she couldn't even beat an island; downstream she was never able to overtake the current...