Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Joe Clark winged off to the West Coast with his peripatetic subcommittee for hearings in San Francisco and Los Angeles-bringing to nine the number of areas visited. To the Senators, who began their probe in Mississippi last month and reported "widespread hunger in the Delta counties that can only be described as shocking," California's ghettoes were almost pleasant by comparison...
...they probe deeper into the heart of the atom, discovering ever smaller and more mysterious particles and particles within particles, scientists have succeeded in bringing the once stable world of nuclear physics to a state of near chaos. Groping among their new-found lambdas, pions, kaons, sigmas and other bits of matter with strange names and even stranger characteristics, physicists hope some day to restore order by finding a truly elemental particle - one out of which all the others are made...
...water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface and insulated from solar heat. The gradual melting and vaporization of this ice, which would leave voids beneath the surface, may account for the cave-ins visible in moon-probe photographs...
...failure aboard Russia's Venus 3, which was to parachute a sterilized instrument capsule to the surface of Venus. As a result, they believe, both the capsule and the unsterilized spacecraft hit the Venusian surface. A similar mishap that same year may have caused the unsterilized Russian probe called Zond 2 to impact on the surface of Mars...
Eight Sites. The January fire blew NASA's schedule to bits. Before the ac cident, things were going so well that a tentative date and minute for the moon-probe lift-off had been set: February 1, 1968, at 10:35 a.m. Now it looks as if the first manned test flight will just be going up then, a full year late. That does not necessarily mean a year's delay in trying for the moon, however. Since spacecraft, rocket and other production will continue throughout the coming year despite the lack of manned missions, Apollo equipment will...