Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energy. No one dreamed that the stars are only the doorstep of the universe. When Baade got his doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1919, most of the mysteries still remained; but in the U.S. new telescopes, bigger and more accurate than anything in Europe, were beginning to probe the sky with new farsightedness. After earning a reputation at Hamburg Observatory, Baade (pronounced bah-de) got the call that all young astronomers there hoped for. In 1931 he went to work at Mount Wilson, Calif, with the 100-in. telescope, at that time the biggest of them...
...this brings up the thought that if there are beings on other planets watching these things sent up from earth, are there Boris Artzybasheffs up there who can do as good a job of depicting the devices they are sending our way to sniff and probe...
...probe's receiver heard it. responded dutifully by allowing a half-strength electric current to flow through the filaments of the big transmitter's tubes. After this initial warmup, the apparatus was rested for six hours to recharge the batteries...
Then a second signal commanded the probe to send full current through the tubes. Both tests were successful, a fact reported to earth by the barely audible voice of the five-watt transmitter...
...order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth, the signal strength from Pioneer V increased twentyfold. The big boy was on the line, calling loud and clear from Pioneer V as the probe continued on its lonely journey...